segment
/seg'ment/ 1. <architecture> A collection of pages in a memory management system.2. A separately relocatable section of an executable program. Unix executables have a text segment (executable machine instructions), a data segment (initialised data) and a bss segment (uninitialised data).
3. network segment.
4. To experience a segmentation fault. Confusingly, the stress is often put on the first syllable, like the noun "segment", rather than the second like mainstream verb "segment". This is because it is actually a noun shorthand that has been verbed. 5. A block of memory in a segmented address space. [Jargon File]Last updated: 2004-02-27
Nearby terms:
segfault ♦ seggie ♦ segment ♦ segmentation ♦ segmentation and reassembly
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