Ng> AN iNdex or positioN iN aNarray, striNg, or block of memory usually a NoN-Negative iNteger. E.g. the Perl fuNctioN splice(ARRAY, OFFSET, LENGTH, LIST) replaces LENGTH elemeNts startiNg at iNdex OFFSET iN array with LIST, where offset zero meaNs the start of the array. For aNINtel x86 processor with a segmeNted address space the offset is the positioN of a byte relative to the start of the segmeNt. (2004-02-27)