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 their work and life.

Anagrams

• emergents, resegment

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.te/

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Verb

segmenter

1. to segment

Conjugation

Conjugation of segmenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	segmenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	segmentant /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		segmenté /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	segmente /sɛɡ.mɑ̃t/	segmentes /sɛɡ.mɑ̃t/	segmente /sɛɡ.mɑ̃t/	segmentons /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	segmentez /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.te/	segmentent /sɛɡ.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	segmentais /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tɛ/	segmentais /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tɛ/	segmentait /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tɛ/	segmentions /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	segmentiez /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tje/	segmentaient /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	segmentai /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.te/	segmentas /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.ta/	segmenta /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.ta/	segmentâmes /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tam/	segmentâtes /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tat/	segmentèrent /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	segmenterai /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tʁe/	segmenteras /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tʁa/	segmentera /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tʁa/	segmenterons /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	segmenterez /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tʁe/	segmenteront /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	segmenterais /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	segmenterais /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	segmenterait /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	segmenterions /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	segmenteriez /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	segmenteraient /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	segmente /sɛɡ.mɑ̃t/	segmentes /sɛɡ.mɑ̃t/	segmente /sɛɡ.mɑ̃t/	segmentions /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	segmentiez /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tje/	segmentent /sɛɡ.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	segmentasse /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tas/	segmentasses /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tas/	segmentât /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.ta/	segmentassions /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	segmentassiez /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	segmentassent /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	segmente /sɛɡ.mɑ̃t/	—	segmentons /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	segmentez /sɛɡ.mɑ̃.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “segmenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Alternative forms

• segment

Noun

segmenter n

1. indefinite plural of segment