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.
5. A block of memory in a segmented address space.
[Jargon File]
(2004-02-27)
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