Segmentation may mean:
- Market segmentation, in economics and marketing
Biology
- A process of morphogenesis that divides a metazoan body into a series of semi-repetitive segments
- Segmentation (biology), a series of semi-repetitive segments
Computing
- Packet segmentation, the process of dividing a data packet into smaller units for transmission over a data communications network.
- Memory segmentation, the division of computer memory into segments
- 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 writing systems
Physiology
- Segmentation contractions (or movements), a type of gastric motility