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)

(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 (ḍiphrjagmenṭ kôra)
Czech: defragmentovat
Dutch: defragmenteren (nl)
Finnish: eheyttää
French: défragmenter (fr)
Galician: desfragmentar
German: defragmentieren (de)

Hungarian: töredezettségmentesít
Indonesian: mendefragmentasi
Italian: deframmentare
Polish: defragmentować (pl) impf
Portuguese: desfragmentar
Serbo-Croatian: defragmentirati
Spanish: desfragmentar

Anagrams

fragmented