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• egmentation fault n. [Unix] 1. [techspeak] An error in which a running program attempts to access memory not allocated to it and core dumps with a segmentation violation error.
  This is often caused by improper usage of pointers in the source code, dereferencing a null pointer, or (in C) inadvertently using a non-pointer variable as a pointer....
• egv: /seg'vee/ n.,vi. Yet another synonym for {segmentation fault} (actually, in this case, `segmentation violation').
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• eggie: /seg'ee/ [UNIX] n. Shorthand for {segmentation fault} reported from Britain.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• egfault: n.,vi. Syn. {segment}, {segmentation fault}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• Fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped
• overrun screw: [C programming] n. A variety of {fandango on core} produced by scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations typically have no checks for this error).
  This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static...
• unspots: n. 1. Notional cause of an odd error. "Why did the program suddenly turn the screen blue?
  Sunspots, I guess." 2. Also the cause of {bit rot} --- from the myth that sunspots will increase {cosmic rays}, which can flip single bits in memory....
• core dump: n. [common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by UNIX] 1.
  [techspeak] A copy of the contents of {core}, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error....
• egv /seg'vee/ n.,vi. Yet another synonym for segmentation fault (actually, in this case, `segmentation violation').