fragmentation

English

Etymology

From fragment +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (US):

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• (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.