defragment
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defragment (third-person singular simple present defragments, present participle defragmenting, simple past and past participle defragmented)
- (computing) To run a process that collects fragments of files and sorts them into contiguous sections on one or more hard disks or hard disk partitions, thus speeding up file management.
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to run a process to make file fragments on a hard disk contiguous
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