Fragmentation or fragmented may refer to:

Computers

  • Fragmentation (computing), a phenomenon of computer storage
  • File system fragmentation, the tendency of a file system to lay out the contents of files non-continuously
  • IP fragmentation, a process in computer networking

Science

  • Fragmentation (cell biology), in cells
  • Fragmentation (reproduction), a form of asexual reproduction
  • Fragmentation of memory, a psychological disorder
  • Fragmentation (mass spectrometry), a technique to study structure of molecules
  • Fragmentation (weaponry), a feature of explosive weaponry
  • Fragmentation (medicine), an operation that breaks of solid matter in a body part into pieces, such as kidney stones
  • Fragmentation, the quantification by photoanalysis of blasted material
  • Hadronization, with quarks

Other

  • Fragmentation (economics), a process of globalization
  • Fragmentation (music), a compositional technique
  • Fragmentation (sociology), a term used in urban sociology
  • Feudal fragmentation, in European history
  • Habitat fragmentation, in an organism's preferred environment
  • Market fragmentation, the existence of multiple incompatible technologies in a single market segment
  • Population fragmentation, a form of population segregation
  • Fragmented (album), a 2006 album by band Up Dharma Down
  • Fragmentation function, a probability function

See also

  • Divergence
  • Fragment (disambiguation)
  • Separation (disambiguation)