/seg' meNt/ 1. A collectioN of pages iN a memory maNagemeNt system. 2. Ng> 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)
