Resegmentize

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Dividing a body of text, data or media into segments once more, using a new set of boundaries
2. Breaking something that has already been split into parts back apart and cutting it into fresh divisions
3. Subjecting material to a second round of division so that it is partitioned into different units

Etymology: "Resegmentize" is a technical coinage, built from familiar parts rather than from an old root. It combines "re-", meaning again, with "segment" and the suffix "-ize", which turns a noun into a verb meaning to subject something to a process. "Segment" itself comes from Latin "segmentum", a piece cut off, from "secare", to cut, so the word literally means to cut something into pieces again, or to divide it into segments once more. The word belongs to the vocabulary of computing and text processing, where "segmentize" and its relatives describe splitting a stream of text, data or code into units, often according to rules, and then doing it again with different boundaries. Because it is formed transparently from English parts, no older source language is involved, and it is best understood as a modern technical formation rather than a word with a long documented history.