The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. The act or process of breaking into fragments.
n. The scattering of the fragments of an exploding bomb or other projectile.
n. Computer Science The scattering of parts of a file throughout a disk, as when the operating system breaks up the file and fits it into the spaces left vacant by previously deleted files.
n. The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
n. The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
n. The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
n. The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. the act or process of separating something into small pieces or fine particles.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A breaking up into parts or fragments; specifically, in zoology, a breaking up into parts or joints with become new individuals, as in some Schizomycetes: a form of fission.
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n. (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk
n. the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes
n. separating something into fine particles
n. the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships
Word Usage
"The use of the term fragmentation to describe Google's Android operating system has no merit because people can't agree what the term means, according to an Android developer."