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]
