fragmentation

  1. Noun.  The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
  2. Noun.  The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
  3. Noun.  (computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
  4. Noun.  (computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.

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