Dividing an image into discrete objects and background.

This is the identification of specific market segments within a market and the development of different marketing offerings for each segment. To maximise their ability to satisfy consumers, marketers divide up or segment the market for their products according to different consumer needs and preferences.:: AIB (8th Edition)

Segmentation is the process of associating different pricing levels in the marketing mix with consumers of different demographics. Segmentation in revenue yield management implies that an individual customers have different levels of utility at a given point in time, and hence, are likely to express different levels of willingness-to-pay for a good or a service.

Divides LANs into separate LAN segments for bridging and routing. Segmentation eliminates LAN bandwidth limitations. Server A central computer that provides services to other computers on a network. Services may include file storage and access to applications.

The dividing of a total market into groups of people or organizations with similar product needs – for example, the cola market could be divided into segments consisting of regular, diet, no-caffeine and non-cola drinkers. The variables used for segmentation range from demographic (such as age, income, occupation), geographic (such as region, urban, climate or market density), psychographic (personality attributes, lifestyles), and behavioristic (volume, brand loyalty, price sensitivity).

Audience analysis technique that divides the audience into smaller groups to more precisely infer attitudes.

the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

(see market segmentation)

The classification of customers into groups exhibiting like behavior. This is done either via business rules ("all customers aged 35 - 45") or via data mining, an automated way of clustering customers based on behavioral data. Personalization can be thought of as segmentation down to a group of one.

Subdividing a target audience into homogeneous and reachable groups based on shared needs and characteristics such as: who they are (socio-demographics) what they do (their behaviour) how they think and feel (their attitudes and needs).

Associating characteristics with each recipient on an email list and then using those characteristics to divide the list into groups or "segments" for sending and reporting. Lists are typically segmented by interest category, demographics, and/or response and/or purchase behavior. Using segmentation allows for the customization of messages within a list, to increase relevance and reduce churn and improve conversion rates. See also "Churn" and "Targeting".

This is a form of sophisticated query or data mining that identifies common groups of records within a customer database. This allows more targeted marketing campaigns, which are both cheaper and have a higher response rate.

The division of a company's prospects and customers based on predetermined characteristics that are tracked throughout the sales cycle and customer lifecycle. This process enables a company to query, segment and "cluster" their prospects and customers. Segments may be geographical, socio-demographical, behavioural or any other criteria that are defined by the CRM system. Segmentation allows a company to conduct target marketing.

Subdividing an overall population into homogeneous subsets of target audiences in order to better describe and understand a segment, predict behavior, and formulate tailored messages and programs to meet specific needs. Segments may be demographic (e.g., age, sex, education, family life cycle), geographic (e.g., Southeastern, U.S., rural, north side of town) or psychographic (e.g., personality, lifestyle, usage patterns, risk factors, benefits sought).

Dividing your email list based on interest categories, purchasing behavior, demographics and more for the purpose of targeting specific email campaigns to the audience most likely to respond to your messaging or offer. Your list segmentation and targeting efforts pay off in higher open and click-through rates.

This is related to database marketing and dynamic content marketing. It is the act of taking your house mailing list and separating it prior to e-mailing in order for recipients to get different messages and offers based on what they will most likely respond to. A file can be segmented based on demographics, buying patterns, areas of interest, and more.

The condition of being divided into distinct segments.

a division and study of the intended audience by primary, secondary and tertiary groups based upon specific criteria, such as by needs for products and services as well as by sociodemographic characteristics, in order to make IEC efforts more effective.

The practice of dividing mailing lists into segments (such as major donors, monthly donors, lapsed members) so that each segment receives a customized appeal letter.

Market segmentation is the process of dividing the market into groups such that individuals/businesses within each group share common characteristics. The purpose is to: prioritize segments of the market to improve marketing profitability and to provide a means to choose the most appropriate communication media and messages for each unique market segment. Contributed by: MarcommWise Staff

A finer more detailed breakdown of a market, by splitting customers or potential customers into different groups or segments, within which customers have the same or similar requirements.

The process of dividing a film into parts for analysis .

Dividing customers into groups, each with common demographic attributes and assessing their value to the business.

(1) The process by which a network protocol breaks long frames into multiple, smaller PDUs. (2) The act of breaking segments (rings) into multiple smaller segments (rings); for example, to divide a large network into separate smaller networks for the purpose of increasing performance.

The process of assigning individual customers into profile groups for targeted marketing purposes.

The process of dividing a customer population into groups based on their loyalty score

Segmentation is the act of taking your house mailing list and separating it so that recipients get different content based on their demographics, buying patterns, interest areas, etc.

Market segmentation is the process of dividing the market into similar groups such that individuals/businesses within each group share common characteristics.  Used for: Profiling, Trade Area Analysis

the process of dividing an object into logical pieces

The process of dividing a market into groups that display similar behaviour and characteristics.

Dividing the market by a certain characteristic (Race, Geography, Sex…etc)

The process of subdividing a text into segments.

Process of separating characteristic groups within a list for target marketing.

In many animals, the body is divided into repeated subunits called segments, such as those in centipedes, insects, and annelids. Segmentation is the state of having or developing a body plan in this way.

An animal body plan in which the organism is subdivided into serially arranged units. Think of your back bone or even the bones in your hands as examples of segmentation.

also called segmentization. It refers to the subdividing of a region, country or city into smaller, more homogenous units such as ethnolinguistic people groups which can then be addressed with strategies for initiating and nurturing a church-planting movement.

A process by which an insurer divides its general account investments into distinct parts, or segments, that correspond with each of the insurer's major lines of business. For example, one segment can be used to account for group life insurance investments, while another can be used to account for individual life insurance investments.

Improving a network’s performance by dividing a large network into several smaller, less congested local area networks, while maintaining connectivity between them. This is efficiently done through the use of switches, which further aid the process of facilitating network traffic because they can carry many transmissions simultaneously.

Generally, the broad problem of separating a problem into parts. For example, a string of speech may be analyzed at many levels: in terms of phonemes, in terms of words, or in terms of complete sentences.

Breaking down a spoken word into word parts by inserting a pause between each part. Words can be segmented at the word level (in the case of compound words), at the syllable level, at the onset-rime level, and at the phoneme level.

The indication of logical breaks in a number by a typographical device, e.g., slash marks or prime marks. Segmentation marks indicate the end of an abridged number or the beginning of a standard subdivision.

the division of a descent group or household into two or more independent units.

Division of consumer markets at the household level to identify a specific target market, for example, super-affluent investors or those with a propensity for bonds.

The division of breaking larger segments (ring) into multiple small segments (rings)

Segmentation in biology refers to the division of some metazoan bodies and plant body plans into a series of semi-repetitive segments, and the question of the benefits and costs of doing so. As such, segmentation is related to the more general concept of modularity.

Segmentation is one of the most common ways to achieve memory protection; another common one is paging. Segmentation means that a part or parts of the memory will be sealed off from the currently running process, through the use of hardware registers. If the data that is about to be read or written to is outside the permitted address space of that process, a segmentation fault will result.

The process by which the correct number of segments is established in a developing segmented animal.