defragment

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-der.

English de-

English fragment

English defragment

From de- + fragment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diːfɹæɡˈmɛnt/, /diːˈfɹæɡmɛnt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Verb

defragment (third-person singular simple present defragments, present participle defragmenting, simple past and past participle defragmented)

1. (computing) To run a process that collects fragments of files and sorts them into contiguous sections on one or more hard disks or hard disk partitions, thus speeding up file management.
   • 2013, Dan Gookin, PCs For Dummies‎^[1], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     SSDs don't need defragmenting. Windows wont' even let you try to defragment an SSD. However, if you could defragment an SSD, you might shorten the device's lifespan.

Synonyms

• defrag

Derived terms

• defragmentation
• defragmenter

Translations

to run a process to make file fragments on a hard disk contiguous

• Bengali: ডিফ্র্যাগমেন্ট করা (bn) (ḍiphrjagomenṭo kora)
• Czech: defragmentovat
• Dutch: defragmenteren (nl)
• Finnish: eheyttää (fi)
• French: défragmenter (fr)
• Galician: desfragmentar
• German: defragmentieren (de)
• Hungarian: töredezettségmentesít
• Indonesian: mendefragmentasi
• Italian: deframmentare (it)
• Malay: mendefragmentasi, menyahserpih
• Māori: whakatōpū kongakonga
• Polish: defragmentować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: desfragmentar (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: defragmentirati
• Spanish: desfragmentar (es)

Anagrams

• fragmented