segmentalizationn.
/sɛɡˌmɛntəlʌɪˈzeɪʃən/ Division into segments; spec. in Linguistics, transformation of a grammatical feature into a distinct segment of speech or text. Cf. segment n. 4c.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [noun] > division into segments
segmentation1851
vertebration1888
segmentalization1964
1964 E. Becker in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 115 There is another kind of confusion..in complex society, which Mills called attention to as a ‘segmentalization of conduct’.
1969 Language 45 718 The auxiliary be is introduced by a segmentalization transformation from features of the following element.
1970 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 16 17 Their [sc. linguistic features'] eventual extraposition (or ‘segmentalization’) is blocked in the case of participles.
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n.1964- plume
- plume alum
- plume bearer
- plume bird
- plume bouquet
- plume feather
- plume fly
- plume grass
- plume holder
- plume hunter
- plume moth
- plume nutmeg
- plume of feathers
- plume poppy
- plume stick
- plume thistle
- plume trade
- plume-bearing
- plume-crowned
- plume-dark
- plume-decked
- plume-dressed
- polarimeters
- polarimetric
- polarimetrically