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.
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