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UK
/fɹˌæɡməntˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌfɹæɡmənˈteɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌfɹæɡmənˈteɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- separating something into fine particles
- the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships
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(computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk
fragmentation slows system performance because it takes extra time to locate and assemble the parts of the fragmented file - the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes
How To Use fragmentation In A Sentence
- The chief natural phenomena that have driven fragmentation are glacial advances, volcanic activity, geologic faulting, tectonic movement, mass land slumping, serpentinization, major sea level rise and climate oscillation. Habitat fragmentation
- You can also schedule defragmentation across your network.
- Furthermore, we have developed a background monitoring function which automatically protects your computer against heavy fragmentation without your having to get involved.
- It was partly the fragmentation of the opposition which helped to get the Republicans re-elected.
- Fragmentation is rampant in the entertainment business.
- This fragmentation makes it harder to pool money to fund projects.
- As for asexual reproduction, the authors discuss why vegetative reproduction works so well for so many aquatic plants: rhizomatous growth (clonal growth), as well as reproduction through fragmentation and the production of corms, stolons, tubers, turions and gemmiparous plantlets.
- The road itself would lead to increased road kills and further splinter an ecosystem where state officials have already bought more than $100 million worth of land to reduce habitat fragmentation.
- Utilizing otherwise-idle resources, defragmentation occurs whenever and wherever possible so that performance is constantly maintained, and there is never a negative performance impact from defrag. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
- The major problems seem to be fragmentation, deficient base in popular constituencies and insufficient links between civic and political efforts.
