Fragmentation

Fragmentation or fragmented may refer to:

Computers

• Fragmentation (computing), a phenomenon of computer storage
• File system fragmentation, the tendency of a file system to lay out the contents of files non-continuously
• IP fragmentation, a process in computer networking

Science

• Fragmentation (cell biology), in cells
• Fragmentation (reproduction), a form of asexual reproduction
• Fragmentation of memory, a psychological disorder
• Fragmentation (mass spectrometry), a technique to study structure of molecules
• Fragmentation (weaponry), a feature of explosive weaponry
• Fragmentation (medicine), an operation that breaks of solid matter in a body part into pieces, such as kidney stones
• Fragmentation, the quantification by photoanalysis of blasted material
• Hadronization, with quarks

Other

• Fragmentation (economics), a process of globalization
• Fragmentation (music), a compositional technique
• Fragmentation (sociology), a term used in urban sociology
• Feudal fragmentation, in European history
• Habitat fragmentation, in an organism's preferred environment
• Market fragmentation, the existence of multiple incompatible technologies in a single market segment
• Population fragmentation, a form of population segregation
• Fragmented (album), a 2006 album by band Up Dharma Down
• Fragmentation function, a probability function

See also

• Divergence
• Fragment (disambiguation)
• Separation (disambiguation)