segmented

1. 1
   adjective

   Made of or divided into distinct sections joined in a series, each forming a separate part of the whole.

   Like a train made of separate cars coupled together into one line.

   Earthworms have a segmented body, each ring marked by a visible groove.

   The software uses a segmented memory model that divides storage into independent blocks.

   Similardivided, partitioned, compartmentalized

   Oppositeunsegmented, undivided, continuous

   Note

   Here the word names a state rather than an action, and that state can be graded: one market is more segmented than another, and a design can be among the most segmented. Before a noun, as in a segmented body, it usually describes built-in structure with no one doing the dividing. Add a by-phrase and the verb form is back in play.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of segment.

   Marketers segmented the audience by age and location before the campaign.

   The data had been segmented into manageable batches before analysis began.

   Note

   A regular verb form that does double duty. The same spelling serves as the past tense (they segmented the list) and as the participle after have or be (it had been segmented). Segment works with or without an object, so a thing can be segmented by someone, or it can simply segment on its own. The bare spelling is also shared with the adjective for divided things.

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