Without knowing the context of that sentence it is hard to say exactly what they mean, but I think it means that the EMG segment starts at the beginning of the moment and ends 256ms after the beginning of the moment. In matlab this data set would look something like :
where time_moment is the time (in milliseconds) when the moment begins, Fs is the sampling frequency of the EMG signal, and EMG_data is an array containg the EMG data set.