segmenter

English

Etymology

segment + -er

Noun

segmenter (plural segmenters)

  1. Something that segments or divides.
    • 1906, Charles Phillips Emerson, Clinical diagnosis, page 592:
      The segmenter now seems to burst, and the young organisms spring apart. Each organism is a hyaline, and is ready for a new cell as host.
    • 1925, Canning Age, page 326:
      It is then placed on the second belt and passed to the segmenters, who after removing the segments and withdrawing the seeds, replace the fruit on the first belt.
    1. A software program or algorithm that divides text into segments, used in corpus linguistics.
    2. A person who successfully separates his work and life.

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French

Verb

segmenter

  1. to segment

Conjugation

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