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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



... the subject of much discussion, is now generally explained in Ehrlich's way. For the mere fact, that by careful heating, poikilocytosis can be experimentally produced in any blood, forces one to the assumption that the poikilocytes are products of a fragmentation of the red blood corpuscles ("schistocytes," Ehrlich). And correspondingly the smallest fragments shew the biconcave form in the dry specimen; for they too contain the specific protoplasm of the disc "which possesses the inherent tendency to assume the typical biconcave form in ...
— Histology of the Blood - Normal and Pathological • Paul Ehrlich


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