segmentation

Other forms of segmentation

plural

segmentations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about segmentation

What does segmentation mean?

segmentation means "(embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in segmentation?

segmentation has 4 syllables: seg-men-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌsɛɡmənˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for segmentation?

Close synonyms include cleavage, division, partition, partitioning, sectionalization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is segmentation a common word?

segmentation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with segmentation?

89 words rhyme with segmentation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.