market segment
segment
verb
uk /seɡˈment/us
[ I or T ] MARKETING
to divide a market into different groups of customers who have similar characteristics or needs:
By segmenting customers and products, technology has given banks the kind of data they need to pursue niche strategies.
The toy industry segments the market by age and gender.
segment (sth) into sthHe argues that the car market is segmenting more and more into smaller groups of critical consumers.
[ T ]
to divide something into different parts:
That is one of the reasons why we are segmenting the company further.
segment sth into sthThe store was segmented into different areas for different customers.

segmented

adjective
There is a carefully segmented market in the making, with different designs carefully nuanced for every socioeconomic stratum.

Examples of segment

segment
Unbeknown to the participants, each trial during the training sessions was divided into three segments.
First seven abdominal terga and sterna with densely and veryfinelyasperate ampullae, those of intermediate segments smaller, that of 7th tergum larger than the others.
Such skills are demonstrated in tasks that require an awareness of phoneme segments.
The number of antennal segments can be used to differentiate between instars.
In picture naming and pairedassociate word generation, a preparation effect was obtained for words that shared phonemic segments regardless of their spelling.
The tribalisation of youth cultures had to be encouraged and strengthened by segmenting the market and thus opening new and potentially unlimited sources of competition.
Subsequently, they hear longer segments of the word, from onset, until finally the whole word is played.
Lexical representations correspond to whole word forms, whereas sublexical representations correspond to parts of words, such as phonological segments or sequences of segments.
Theorems 9 and 10 together imply that the net effect of the vertical segments is often neglible.
The latter considers segmental identity and the nature of the elemental features of which phonological segments consist; it thus deals with 'subsegmental' structure.
The last two flagellar segments partially fused (fig. 4c).
Cuticular prominences occur on all the body segments except the prothorax, their disposition being as in the 2nd instar larva.
Open spiracles occur on the prothorax and first eight abdominal segments.
Due to the high speed of the convergence, this remains true for sufficiently long orbit segments of the limit diffeomorphism.
298 segments of the leaf in the latter are all in one plane and adaxially recurved.
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Collocations withsegment

segment

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adjacent segment
Sufficiently identical adjacent segment avoidance thus needn't depend on assimilation per se, only on the potential for some independently motivated process to create adjacent identical segments.
certain segment
Over the last decade or so, the notion of postmodernism (however this is to be defined) has been the focus of intense discussion in certain segments of academia.
distinct segments
As is shown, eight distinct segments are defined in the figure.
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