/seg'ment/ 1.
architecture A collection of
pages in a
2. programming A separately relocatable section of an
(initialised data) and a
bss segment (uninitialised data).
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)