Segmen

Segmen is a term used in Indonesian and Malay to denote a part of a whole or a portion. It can refer to a subdivision in a plan, a segment of content, or an identifiable unit within a larger system.

Etymology: The word derives from the English segment, which in turn comes from the Latin segmentum. In Indonesian and Malay, segmen was adopted through contact with European languages and is now widely used in education, business, and media.

In mathematics and geometry, a segmen (line segment) is the part of a line bounded by two endpoints. It has a definite length and straightness, and serves as a basic building block for shapes and measurements.

In linguistics, segmen is used to refer to discrete speech sounds or units of sound that can be identified in the process of segmentation of speech. These units, such as consonants and vowels, are analyzed as constituents of words and utterances.

In business and advertising, segmen appears in phrases like segmen pasar or segmen audiens to denote market or audience segments—subsets targeted for specific strategies and messaging.

In computing and data science, segmen is used in terms such as memory segmentation or image segmentation, referring to dividing data or images into meaningful parts for processing and analysis.