View synonyms for fragmentation

fragmentation

[ frag-muhn-tey-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the act or process of fragmenting; state of being fragmented.
the disintegration, collapse, or breakdown of norms of thought, behavior, or social relationship.
the pieces of an exploded fragmentation bomb or grenade.
Computers. the process or result of storing data from a file in noncontiguous sectors on a disk drive. As files are created, modified, deleted, etc., the files are split into smaller pieces and the remaining free space on the disk is broken up, slowing down data access speed on the disk.

fragmentation

/ frăg′mən-tā′shən /

The scattering of parts of a computer file across different regions of a disk. Fragmentation occurs when the operating system breaks up the file and stores it in locations left vacant by previously deleted files. The more fragmented the file, the slower it is to retrieve, since each piece of the file must be identified and located on the disk.

First recorded in 1880–85; fragment + -ation

Other species losses take more time and occur due to landscape fragmentation.

First, it means the probably irreversible fragmentation of the modern Syrian state.

Instead, we have irony, allusion, meta commentary, fragmentation, parody, and pastiche.

(LOC 432) The army's standard fragmentation grenade has a blast radius of 15 meters.

In this sense the fragmentation of the opposition could also work against Netanyahu.

The fragmentation bombs were a late development in this class of work.

The multiple fragmentation of the SA stock presumably terminated by the end of the Pliocene.

We are very good at fragmentation-it defines our narrow specialties.

The earliest American requirement in this production was for defensive grenades, of the fragmentation type.

Nursing as caring resists fragmentation of the unitary phenomenon of our discipline.

Browse