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parcelation

parcelation is the alternative form of parcellation.

Meaning of parcellation

Noun

parcellation (countable and uncountable, plural parcellations)

  1. division into parcels; especially the dividing up of a large amount of land between the inhabitants of it so that each person receives an equal amount of land.
  2. (medical imaging) A map or annotation associating spatial locations (e.g., voxels) with parcel identities (e.g., anatomically or functionally circumscribed regions); the map or annotation that results from or delineates the results of parcellation (sense 1)

Forms of parcelation

pluralparcelations

Questions about parcelation

What is parcelation the alternative form of?
Parcelation is the alternative form of parcellation.

Words near parcelation in the dictionary

  1. parcel tape
  2. parcel tapes
  3. parcel up
  4. parcel-poet
  5. parcel-poets
  6. parcelation
  7. parcelations
  8. parcelcopter
  9. parcelcopters
  10. parceled
  11. parceled out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parcelation (page history and authors); parcellation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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