unsegmentedness
|un-seg-men-ted-ness|
/ˌʌn.sɛɡˈmɛn.tɪd.nəs/
not divided into parts
Etymology
'unsegmentedness' originates from English, specifically formed from the negative prefix 'un-' (meaning 'not'), the noun 'segment' (from Latin 'segmentum'), the past-participial/adjectival element '-ed', and the nominalizing suffix '-ness'.
'segment' comes from Latin 'segmentum' (a cut-off piece), entered Old French and then Middle English as 'segment'; the negative prefix 'un-' is from Old English/Proto-Germanic; these combined into the adjective 'unsegmented', which was later nominalized to 'unsegmentedness'.
Initially the components referred to 'not cut into pieces' (literal sense), and over time the compound came to be used more abstractly to mean 'absence of segmentation' in linguistic and technical contexts.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
the state or quality of not being divided into segments; lack of segmentation.
The unsegmentedness of the data stream prevented easy parsing by the analysis tool.
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Noun 2
in linguistics or signal processing, the absence of identifiable boundaries (e.g., between words, phonemes, or segments).
Researchers studied the unsegmentedness of continuous speech to improve word boundary detection.
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Last updated: 2026/01/02 09:19