/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)