Segment, segmentation, segmented, or segmental may refer to:

Biology

Segmentation (biology) Segmentation in biology is the division of some animal and plant body plans into a linear series of repetitive segments that may or may not be interconnected to each other. This article focuses on the segmentation of animal body plans, specific ...

, the division of body plans into a series of repetitive segments ** Segmentation in the human nervous system * Internodal segment, the portion of a nerve fiber between two Nodes of Ranvier *Segment, in

fruit anatomy Fruits are the mature ovary (plants), ovary or ovaries of one or more flowers. They are found in three main anatomical categories: aggregate fruits, multiple fruits, and simple fruits. Fruitlike structures may develop directly from the seed it ...

, a section of a citrus fruit *Parts of a

genome A genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding genes, other functional regions of the genome such as ...

, especially in virology

Computing and communications

* Episode§Segment (radio and television), sub-unit of an episode of radio or television or podcast *

Memory segmentation Memory segmentation is an operating system memory management technique of dividing a computer's primary memory into segments or sections. In a computer system using segmentation, a reference to a memory location includes a value that identifies ...

, the division of computer memory into segments ** Segment descriptor ** Data segment ** Code segment *

Image segmentation In digital image processing and computer vision, image segmentation is the process of partitioning a digital image into multiple image segments, also known as image regions or image objects (Set (mathematics), sets of pixels). The goal of segmen ...

, the process of partitioning a digital image into multiple segments * Time-series segmentation, the process of partitioning a time-series into a sequence of discrete segments in order to reveal the underlying properties of its source * Network segmentation, splitting a computer network into subnetworks **

Network segment A network segment is a portion of a computer network. The nature and extent of a segment depends on the nature of the network and the device or devices used to interconnect end stations. Ethernet According to the defining IEEE 802.3 standards ...

Packet segmentation Packet may refer to: * A small container or pouch ** Packet (container), a small single use container ** Cigarette packet ** Sugar packet * Network packet, a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-mode computer network * Packet radio, a form ...

, the process of dividing a data packet into smaller units ** Segmentation and reassembly *

TCP segment The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the main protocols of the Internet protocol suite. It originated in the initial network implementation in which it complemented the Internet Protocol (IP). Therefore, the entire suite is common ...

ation, the process of dividing a data stream into segments for transmission * Segment architecture, a detailed, formal description of areas within an enterprise

Geometry

Line segment In geometry, a line segment is a part of a line (mathematics), straight line that is bounded by two distinct endpoints (its extreme points), and contains every Point (geometry), point on the line that is between its endpoints. It is a special c ...

, part of a line bounded by two end points *

Circular segment In geometry, a circular segment or disk segment (symbol: ) is a region of a disk which is "cut off" from the rest of the disk by a straight line. The complete line is known as a '' secant'', and the section inside the disk as a '' chord''. More ...

, the region of a circle cut off from the rest by a secant or chord *

Spherical segment In geometry, a spherical segment is the solid defined by cutting a sphere or a ball with a pair of parallel planes. It can be thought of as a spherical cap with the top truncated, and so it corresponds to a spherical frustum. The surface o ...

, the solid defined by cutting a sphere with a pair of parallel planes *

Arc (geometry) In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line (geometry), line, but that does not have to be Linearity, straight. Intuitively, a curve may be thought of as the trace left by a moving point (ge ...

, a closed segment of a differentiable curve

Linguistics

* Segment (handwriting), the pen-tip trajectory between two defined points *

Segment (linguistics) In linguistics, a segment is "any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech". The term is most used in phonetics and phonology to refer to the smallest elements in a language, and this usage can ...

, a discrete unit of speech ** Speech segmentation, identifying the boundaries between words in spoken languages *

Text segmentation Text segmentation is the process of dividing written text into meaningful units, such as words, sentences, or topics. The term applies both to mental processes used by humans when reading text, and to artificial processes implemented in compu ...

, dividing written text into meaningful units

Other uses

* Segmentary lineage, a model in social anthropology *

Market segmentation In marketing, market segmentation or customer segmentation is the process of dividing a consumer or business market into meaningful sub-groups of current or potential customers (or consumers) known as ''segments''. Its purpose is to identify pr ...

, dividing a broad market into sub-groups of consumers * Euro Car Segment, EU descriptions of car types * A-segment, first category in the passenger car classification system defined by the European Commission.

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