segment /seg'ment/ 1. <architecture> A collection of pages in a memory management system.
2. (programming) 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] Last updated: 2004-02-27
