Segmentation
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Segmentation may mean:
- Segmentation (music), the breaking down of music into smaller parts
- Market segmentation, in economics
Biology
- A morphogenesis process that divides a metazoan body into a series of semi-repetitive segments
- segmentation (biology), the structure that results from said process
Computing
- Segmentation (memory), the division of main memory into memory subsystems
- Network segmentation, the splitting of a computer network into subnetworks, each being a network segment or network layer
- Segmentation (image processing), the partitioning of a digital image into two or more regions
- In natural language processing:
- Speech segmentation, the identification of word boundaries in speech
- Text segmentation, the identification of lexical units in certain scripts, such as Chinese and Japanese
