fragmentation

About 4.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
2. noun The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
3. noun The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
4. noun The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.
5. noun A form of asexual reproduction or cloning where an organism splits into one or more pieces. Those pieces then become new individuals.
6. noun the process of splitting into several pieces or fragments, which is useful for a cell during both DNA cloning and apoptosis.
7. noun the dissociation of energetically unstable molecular ions formed from passing the molecules mass spectrum.
8. noun the an operation that breaks of solid matter in a body part into pieces, such as kidney stones

Similar words

atomization atomisation fragmentary shattering fragment disintegration fracturing dismemberment splitting shredding

Often followed by

of and in is that or was on into

Word family

fragmentate fragmentated fragmentates fragmentating fragmentations