1. the process or result of dividing something into segments or sections
2. the division of a market into distinct groups of consumers with different needs or characteristics
Usage: business; marketing
3. the process of partitioning a digital image into multiple segments or regions
Usage: computer science; image processing

Examples

• The company’s market segmentations revealed three distinct customer groups.
• Image segmentations help computers identify different objects in photographs.
• The biologist studied cell segmentations during embryonic development.
• Effective segmentations of the data made analysis much easier.
• The software performs automatic segmentations of brain scans.
• Marketing segmentations allow companies to target specific audiences.
• Multiple segmentations of the same dataset produced different results.