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fragmented, pa. pple. and ppl. a.|ˈfrægməntɪd, -ˈmɛntɪd|
[f. fragment n. + -ed2. Cf. F. fragmenté.]
Broken into fragments, made fragmentary.
a1817Jane Austen Northang. Abb. (1818) II. ix. 172 In the shape of some fragmented journal, continued to the last gasp. 1830Fraser's Mag. II. 128 What follows is a song from the same fragmented masque. 1852Willis Summer Cruise in Medit. xxiii. 143 Heaps of fragmented columns. 1864Reader 2 July 20 Examples of bones fragmented by man of animals extinct in that part of Europe. 189319th Cent. Nov. 839 The tumbled crags..Lie fragmented in horror. 1955Times 24 June 10/7 The necessity of avoiding such isolation..was felt more profoundly than elsewhere in a Europe fragmented by history. 1964G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? v. 99 With responsibility for the expectant mother fragmented or frantically shuffled between three authorities (hospital, local health, general practice).
▸ Computing. Of a file: stored in a number of separate areas on a disk. Of a disk: containing such files. Cf. fragmentation n.
1983Re: too Slow? in net.micro (Usenet newsgroup) 22 Sept. Try running a sort on a fragmented diskette file in CP/M or MS-DOS. 1994NewMedia Aug. 86/3 To get flawless performance, you must create a scratch file of contiguous hard disk sectors; capturing media to a fragmented disk will cause dropped frames and a hesitation in the playback video. 2003Computer Shopper (Nexis) 1 May 132 If your hard drive is badly fragmented, you could see a noticeable improvement in the speed of your drive after defragging. |