May 15, 2003

segment

/seg´ment/ vi.

To experience a segmentation fault. Confusingly, this is often pronounced more like the noun ‘segment’ than like mainstream v. segment; this is because it is actually a noun shorthand that has been verbed.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:30 AM

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