fragmentation

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fragmentation

Wikipedia

Etymology

From fragment +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌfɹæɡmənˈteɪt͡ʃən/

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌfɹæɡmənˈtæɪt͡ʃən/

Noun

fragmentation (countable and uncountable, plural fragmentations)

1. The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
2. The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
3. (computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
4. (computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.
5. (biology) A form of asexual reproduction or cloning where an organism splits into one or more pieces. Those pieces then become new individuals.

Synonyms

• fragmentization

Antonyms

• defragmentation

Derived terms

• antifragmentation
• autofragmentation
• Beckmann fragmentation
• biofragmentation
• Eschenmoser fragmentation
• fragmentation bomb
• fragmentation grenade
• hyperfragmentation
• multifragmentation
• overfragmentation
• phacofragmentation
• photofragmentation
• polyfragmentation
• refragmentation

Translations

act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration

Bulgarian: раздробяване (bg) n (razdrobjavane), фрагментация (fragmentacija) Czech: fragmentace f Dutch: fragmentatie (nl) f Finnish: sirpaloituminen Galician: fragmentación (gl) f German: Fragmentierung (de) f, Zersplitterung f, Zertrümmerung f Greek: θρυμματισμός (el) m (thrymmatismós) Hindi: विघटन (hi) m (vighṭan) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: parçêbûn Maori: māhurehurenga Polish: fragmentacja (pl) f Portuguese: fragmentação (pt) f Romanian: fragmentare (ro) f Serbo-Croatian: fragmentácija (sh) f Spanish: fragmentación f Tagalog: kapirasuhan

process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.

Bulgarian: разпръскване (bg) n (razprǎskvane) Dutch: fragmentatie (nl) f Finnish: sirpaloituminen Galician: fragmentación (gl) f German: Fragmentierung (de) f, Zersplitterung f Portuguese: fragmentação (pt) f Romanian: fragmentare (ro) f Serbo-Croatian: fragmentácija (sh) f Spanish: fragmentación f

the breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk

Bulgarian: фрагментиране n (fragmentirane) Czech: fragmentace f Dutch: fragmentatie (nl) f Finnish: fragmentaatio, fragmentoituminen, pirstoutuminen (fi) Galician: fragmentación (gl) f German: Fragmentierung (de) f, Zersplitterung f Greek: κατακερματισμός (el) m (katakermatismós) Hungarian: töredezettség (hu) Kazakh: үзінділеу (üzındıleu) Malay: penyerpihan, fragmentasi Maori: pirara, kongakonga Portuguese: fragmentação (pt) f Serbo-Croatian: fragmentácija (sh) f Spanish: fragmentación f

the breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network

Dutch: fragmentatie (nl) f Finnish: fragmentaatio Galician: fragmentación (gl) f German: Fragmentierung (de) f, Zersplitterung f Hungarian: csomagtördelés Portuguese: fragmentação (pt) f Serbo-Croatian: fragmentácija (sh) f Spanish: fragmentación f

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French: (please verify) fragmentation (fr)

French

Etymology

From fragmenter +‎ -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophone: fragmentations
• Hyphenation: frag‧men‧ta‧tion

Noun

fragmentation f (plural fragmentations)

1. fragmentation

   Synonyms: division, éclatement, segmentation

   Antonyms: défragmentation, rassemblement, réunion

Derived terms

• défragmentation

Further reading

• “fragmentation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.