segment
/seg'ment/ 1.
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.
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-12-15)