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Fragmentation   /frˌægməntˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Fragmentation

noun
1.
Separating something into fine particles.  Synonyms: atomisation, atomization.
2.
The disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships.
3.
(computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk.
4.
The scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes.



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"Fragmentation" Quotes from Famous Books



... reconstruction at all. It achieved no reconstruction because the movement as a whole lacked an adequate grasp of one fundamentally necessary idea, the idea of Catholicity. It fell into particularism and failed. It set up a vast process of fragmentation among Christian associations. It drove huge fissures through the once common platform. In innumerable cases they were fissures of organization and prejudice rather than real differences in belief and mental habit. Sometimes it was manifestly conflicting material interests that made the ...
— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Fragmentation" :   computing, atomisation, computer science, decomposition, disintegration, blowup, fragment, detonation, explosion, storage, division



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