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SED /S-E-D/ n. [TMRC, from 'Light-Emitting Diode'] Smoke-emitting diode. A friode that lost the war. See also LER. |
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segfault n.,vi. Syn. segment, segmentation fault. |
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seggie /seg'ee/ n. [Unix] Shorthand for segmentation fault reported from Britain. |
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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. |
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segmentation fault n. [Unix] 1. An error in which a running program attempts to access memory not allocated to it and core dumps with a segmentation violation error. 2. To lose a train of thought or a line of reasoning. Also uttered as an exclamation at the point of befuddlement. |
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segv /seg'vee/ n.,vi. Yet another synonym for segmentation fault (actually, in this case, 'segmentation violation'). |
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self-reference n. See self-reference. |
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selvage /sel'v j/ n. [from sewing and weaving] See chad (sense 1). |
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semi /se'mee/ or /se'm / 1. n. Abbreviation for 'semicolon', when speaking. "Commands to grind are prefixed by semi-semi-star" means that the prefix is ';;*', not 1/4 of a star. 2 A prefix used with words such as 'immediately' as a qualifier. "When is the system coming up?" "Semi-immediately." (That is, maybe not for an hour.) "We did consider that possibility semi-seriously." See also infinite. |
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semi-infinite n. See infinite. |
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senior bit n. [IBM] Syn. meta bit. |
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server n. A kind of daemon that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the server runs. A particularly common term on the Internet, which is rife with web servers, name servers, domain servers, 'news servers', finger servers, and the like. |
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SEX /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. |
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