fragmentation

countable uncountable

The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration. / The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.

Japanese Meaning

断片化、すなわち物や概念が小さな部分や片に分かれる（分解・破砕）の状態や行為 / 特に爆発などで生じる破片が散乱する現象

The fragmentation of the ancient manuscript made reconstruction difficult.

古い写本が断片化していたため、復元は困難だった。

Sense（1）

The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.

Sense（2）

The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.

Sense（3）

(computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

Sense（4）

(computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.

fragmentations

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