segmentation

seg·men·ta·tion (seg′men tā′s̸hən, -mən-)

noun

a dividing or being divided into segments
Biol. the progressive growth and cleavage of a single cell into many others to form a new organism

The act of dividing something into smaller units.
In local area networks (LANs), the act of dividing a LAN into smaller physical units on a geographical basis through filtering bridges, hubs, switches, or routers. Segmentation relieves congestion by limiting the scope of broadcast messages and by confining unicast and multicast traffic to the segment or segments in the physical path between the originating device and each destination device. See also broadcast, filtering bridge, hub, LAN, multicast, switch, router, unicast.
In asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), the process of dividing an incoming data unit -such as a block, frame, or packet -- into cells. As the cells exit the ATM network, they are reassembled in order to reconstitute the original block, frame, or packet. The entire process is known as segmentation and reassembly (SAR). See also ATM, block, cell, frame, packet, and SAR.
In packet networks, the breaking of large packets into multiple smaller packets (or IP frames) to meet limits on packet length. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), for example supports the segmentation of files prior to transmission, and their reassembly upon receipt. See also frame, IP, packet, segment, and TCP.

Preposition: of

speech: They found that segmentation of continuous speech could proceed on the basis of these dependencies.
image: The algorithm allows the segmentation of noisy images to single pixel accuracy.

Converse of object

perform: The differences are: The 10x system uses the CMU segmenter available from NIST to perform acoustic segmentation.
reveal: Two proprietary consumer cargo tank radar surveys by Zelos Group reveal promising market segmentation, pricing and packaging strategies.

Adjective modifier

automatic: Automatic segmentation in medical imaging is an important tool.
manual: Of course, there are serious enough problems with manual segmentation to prevent it from being a viable solution in most applications.
visual: Web Search and MSN Search will likely integrate some form of visual page segmentation into their search algorithms.
accurate: Accurate segmentation can be achieved in a fraction of the time it would take to trace the boundary by hand.
initial: The initial segmentation of the embryo is dependent upon concentration biases in the fertilized egg.

Modifies a noun

fault: Risk of segmentation fault with huge weight maps fixed.
violation: The main fix is to prevent -t option giving a segmentation violation.
algorithm: Region growing A range of image segmentation algorithms are based on region growing.
technique: The older segmentation technique of region growing, [ 14 ] , has a distinct advantage here.
procedure: A key frame identifier can speed up the segmentation procedure.

Noun used with modifier

phoneme: The second approach focused on phoneme segmentation and blending in the context of sounding out actual words.
lattice: Lattice segmentation and support vector machines for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition.
texture: A method of texture segmentation is introduced which is based on the Fractal Dimension.
market: The key is market segmentation which can be a complex process.
image: Region growing A range of image segmentation algorithms are based on region growing.
speech: Year: 1986 Abstract: Speech segmentation procedures may differ in speakers of different languages.

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