self-segment

Verb

self-segment (third-person singular simple present self-segments, present participle self-segmenting, simple past and past participle self-segmented)

1. To choose a product or service on the basis of factors such as quality and price, rather than because of targeted marketing.
   • Internet business is much more a form of supply marketing than of demand marketing. It is creating new segments, new needs, new attitudes and new behaviors, and customers tend to self-segment themselves to a large extent (e.g. through the way they search on the Web, the information they release on...2000 August 1, Christian Dussart, “Internet: the one-plus-eight ‘re-volutions’”, in European Management Journal, volume 18, number 4, →DOI, pages 386–397
   • Similarly Kimes and Wirtz (2003) stated that well designed rate fences that are logic and intuitively understood allow consumers to self-segment based on their willingness-to-pay and enables companies tomore effectively manage the different segments to their particular needs on the value-price...2012 January 19, Malte Rücker, Revenue Management Integration: The Financial Performance Contribution of an Integrated Revenue Management Process for Hotels, diplom.de, →ISBN, page 51
2. (broadly) To place oneself in a particular group, for example when responding to a survey.
   • The aim of the present study was twofold. First, to empirically test a novel interviewing technique whereby the witness self-segments their memory of an event into their own discrete parameter-bound ‘topic boxes’ at the outset, before engaging in an exhaustive free recall retrieval attempt...2020 March 13, Katie Maras, Coral Dando, Heather Stephenson, Anna Lambrechts, Sophie Anns, and Sebastian Gaigg, “The Witness-Aimed First Account (WAFA): A new technique for interviewing autistic...
   • We encourage methods that promote a platform for all viewpoints, not just polarizing views, to be heard. Researchers self-segmenting into smaller, niche conferences or organizations that only highlight one perspective are a disservice to the field and have the potential to undercut public health.2020 August 10, Dana Mowls Carroll, Rachel L Denlinger-Apte, Sarah S Dermody, Jessica L King, Melissa Mercincavage, Lauren R Pacek, Tracy T Smith, Hollie L Tripp, Cassidy M White, “Polarization...

   Synonyms:

   self-identify

3. To cause a thing to acquire appropriate size by a planned process.
   • As the solution becomes more concentrated, in reality this least solvated block will begin to experience increased self-segment interaction in order to decrease the less preferred polymer–solvent interactions, while minimizing contact with the remaining two blocks.2005 April 1, Nikod Hadjichristidis; Hermis Iatrou, Marinos Pitsikalis; Sterguis Pispas; Apostolos Avgeropoulos, “Linear and non-linear triblock terpolymers. Synthesis, self-assembly in selective...
   • Spontaneous separation of species in a droplet may lead to asymmetric structures. Weitz’s group investigated the fabrication of Janus particles by means of thermally induced phase separation and selective adsorption of colloids in droplets in capillary-based co-axial flow focusing devices. Aqueous...2013 December 6, Xiao-Ting Sun, Mei Liu, Zhang-Run Xu, “Microfluidic fabrication of multifunctional particles and their analytical applications”, in Talanta, volume 121, →DOI, pages 163–177