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