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What does fragmentation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
  2. The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
  3. (computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
  4. (computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.
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Since the fragmentation of the railway in Britain railwaymen have constantly complained about the situation and the results have not been good.
Some people think fragmentation is unhealthy or it's schizophrenia or madness.
He says that Ulster Protestantism may be split beyond repair and that this fragmentation poses a real threat to the Union.
Most of the rock formations have been metamorphosed, folded, and faulted during the fragmentation and collision of plates of the earth's crust.
Radiographic features include radiolucent defects in the femoral head and fragmentation of the femoral head.
There is no evolution in his work, but a continual alternation between structure and disorder, equilibrium and fragmentation.

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