defragment

English

Etymology

de- +‎ fragment

Pronunciation

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

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.

Synonyms

• defrag

Derived terms

• defragmentation
• defragmenter

Translations

(computing) to run a process to make file fragments on a hard disk contiguous

• Bengali: ডিফ্র্যাগমেন্ট করা (ḍiphrjagomenṭo kora)
• Czech: defragmentovat
• Dutch: defragmenteren (nl)
• Finnish: eheyttää
• French: défragmenter (fr)
• Galician: desfragmentar
• German: defragmentieren (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: töredezettségmentesít
• Indonesian: mendefragmentasi
• Italian: deframmentare
• Polish: defragmentować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: desfragmentar
• Serbo-Croatian: defragmentirati
• Spanish: desfragmentar

Anagrams

• fragmented