segmentieren
segment
Etwas in kleinere Teile oder Abschnitte aufteilen.
Definition & meaning
Segmentieren is a verb that means to divide or split something into distinct parts, sections, or segments. It is commonly used in various fields:
- General use: To partition a whole into smaller, manageable units or components.
- Marketing: To divide a target market into smaller groups of consumers with similar needs, characteristics, or behaviors (market segmentation).
- Linguistics: To break down speech or written text into units such as phonemes, morphemes, or words.
- Computer Science/Data Processing: To divide data or memory into segments for more efficient processing or addressing.
- Biology/Anatomy: To refer to the process of body division into repetitive segments (metamerism), as seen in annelids or embryos.
Grammar & Word origin
The word is a weak verb. Its conjugation follows the standard German pattern:
- Infinitive: segmentieren
- Present: ich segmentiere, du segmentierst, er/sie/es segmentiert
- Past (Präteritum): segmentierte
- Perfect: hat segmentiert
Origin: The term is derived from the Latin word segmentum ("piece" or "slice"), which itself comes from the verb secare ("to cut"). It entered the German language as a technical term, primarily used in scientific, analytical, and professional contexts.
Synonyms & antonyms
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Examples
Wir segmentieren die Daten für das neue Projekt.verb
We segment the data for the new project.
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