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/seg'ment/ 1. architecture A collection of pages in a
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.
(1994-12-15)