the act or process of fragmenting; state of being fragmented.
the disintegration, collapse, or breakdown of norms of thought, behavior, or social relationship.
the pieces of an exploded fragmentation bomb or grenade.
Computers. the process or result of storing data from a file in noncontiguous sectors on a disk drive. As files are created, modified, deleted, etc., the files are split into smaller pieces and the remaining free space on the disk is broken up, slowing down data access speed on the disk.
Ryan Davis, a Trinity University aerosol expert, looked at this specific scenario and estimated that fragmentation was unlikely at the air velocities the researchers tested.
What You Need to Know About Wearing a Face Mask Outside|Joe Lindsey|September 30, 2020|Outside Online
Social media’s role has not been to dramatically change the direction of this system, but to intensify the polarization and fragmentation it causes.
Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem|Tate Ryan-Mosley|September 6, 2020|MIT Technology Review
The pandemic highlighted many longstanding systemic flaws in the health care system, including fragmentation, inaccessibility, high costs, and health outcome disparities.
COVID-19 has spurred rapid transformation in health care. Let’s make sure it stays that way|jakemeth|August 20, 2020|Fortune
Instead, we have irony, allusion, meta commentary, fragmentation, parody, and pastiche.
Not Much New in Douglas Rushkoff’s Reading of the Future|Jacob Silverman|March 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In this sense the fragmentation of the opposition could also work against Netanyahu.
What Went Wrong For Netanyahu|Bernard Avishai|January 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
So too is the fragmentation of the FSA when it comes to command and control.
Richard Engel’s Kidnapping: A Behind the Scenes Look|Jamie Dettmer|December 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Given the fragmentation of Syrian society, disarmament will be a major challenge.
Back the Syrian Rebels. But Don’t Intervene|P.J. Crowley|December 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Private-sector experience has demonstrated that fragmentation can be overcome.
What I Learned About Health Care in the 1990s|Dick Gephardt|July 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Time has long ago yielded to fragmentation, been divided into minute parts and each part carefully measured.
The Mystery of Space|Robert T. Browne
The fragmentation bombs were a late development in this class of work.
America's Munitions 1917-1918|Benedict Crowell
The course of the missile was from behind forward, causing a transverse fracture of the humerus with some fragmentation.
Gunshot Roentgenograms|Clyde S. Ford
The course of the missile was transverse from without inward, with a transverse fracture and fragmentation.
Gunshot Roentgenograms|Clyde S. Ford
The missile struck the bone and caused a long, splitting fracture, with some fragmentation of the proximal fragment.
Gunshot Roentgenograms|Clyde S. Ford
British Dictionary definitions for fragmentation
fragmentation
/ (ˌfræɡmɛnˈteɪʃən) /
noun
the act of fragmenting or the state of being fragmented
the disintegration of norms regulating behaviour, thought, and social relationships
the steel particles of an exploded projectile
(modifier)of or relating to a weapon designed to explode into many small pieces, esp as an antipersonnel weapona fragmentation bomb
The scattering of parts of a computer file across different regions of a disk. Fragmentation occurs when the operating system breaks up the file and stores it in locations left vacant by previously deleted files. The more fragmented the file, the slower it is to retrieve, since each piece of the file must be identified and located on the disk.