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segment [n]

1)	one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road"

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section

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part unit section bend dado leaf length straight subdivision

2)	one of the parts into which something naturally divides; "a segment of an orange"

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part section metamere sarcomere section internode

segment [v]

1)	divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"

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section

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divide section division section section division syllabicate quarter

2)	divide or split up; "The cells segmented"

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section divide

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

/seg'ment/ 1. A collection of pages in a memory management system.

2. 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. 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.

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(1994-12-15)

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