segment

/seg'ment/ 1. architecture A collection of pages in a

memory management system.

2. programming 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. networking 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.

[Jargon File]

(1994-12-15)