0 the division of something into smaller parts:
the segmentation of a word into its constituent letters
1 the fact that a market is or can be divided into different groups of customers, who have similar characteristics or needs:
The use of customer data bases that allow a detailed segmentation of markets tend to provide some 'personalization' of a firm's offer.
As is known, Freud's talking cure is based on a segmentation of speech.
Image segmentation is one of the most important steps leading to the analysis of processed image data.
Sentence segmentation was performed manually before the study was performed.
The rules for word segmentation may be motivated by the grammatical analysis adopted by parsers or treebanks.
This response pattern suggests that segmentation tasks at both phonological levels are difficult for most children of this age group.
Finally, for segmentation and blending tasks, the different reading groups were not differentially affected by syllable structure.
In segmented markets economies, then, shocks affect the previous rates not only through their standard full participation fundamentals, but also through the segmentation rate.
