self-segmented

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
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...

   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...