/Seg' ment/ 1. A collection of pageS in a memory managementSyStem. 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 bSSSegment (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 addreSSSpace. [Jargon File] (2004-02-27)
