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fragmentation

Word definitions for fragmentation in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
fragmentation \fragmentation\ n. the act or process of separating something into small pieces or fine particles. Syn: atomization, atomisation.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration. 2 The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter. 3 (context computing English) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk. 4 (context computing ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mass spectrometry, fragmentation is the dissociation of energetically unstable molecular ions formed from passing the molecules in the ionization chamber of a mass spectrometer. The fragments of a molecule cause a pattern in the mass spectrum used to ...

Usage examples of fragmentation.

In the increasing fragmentation of mankind, the shock of the Poole wormhole incursion faded - despite the ominous warnings of Superet - and it remained a time of optimism, of hope, of expansion into an unlimited future.

His neural nanonics automatically fired a salvo of fragmentation rounds at the renewed charge.

Kiwi and I were well past the disposable-friendship stage, but the last week in Paris was spacey for all four of us as we cooled down toward each other in our attempts to play down the pain of imminent fragmentation.

I were well past the disposable-friendship stage, but the last week in Paris was spacey for all four of us as we cooled down toward each other in our attempts to play down the pain of imminent fragmentation.

Dragging his carbine in his left hand and filling the inside of his shirt with smoke and fragmentation grenades, Viale crept and crawled into the teeth of the Jap machine gun.

The fire was neutralized, and as Viale, from ten yards, poured one full clip of twenty rounds into the aperture, the squad leader got to the rear of the Japs and tossed in two fragmentation grenaded, then one more for good measure.

Opposite the seaplane bases, six TBFs loaded with fragmentation and incendiary bombs peeled off, angled down through the tracers of light and medium AA and plastered their assigned targets.

He laid the launcher aside and loaded the second with an HE antipersonnel fragmentation round.

Linguists suggest that the fragmentation of the Austronesian languages of Melanesia implies a dispersal five to six thousand years ago.

The fallen officers blocked the door from closing, and as Bengazi reached the last step, he rolled a smoke grenade and then a fragmentation grenade into the hallway.

It is an ongoing struggle to find and maintain identity, However, when identity appears in the cohesive properties of the Nazi biomedical vision, the answer to the question diminishes, if not altogether represses, the underlying fragmentation anxiety of each individual member of the group.

We might characterise this view by saying that Vladimir and Estragon prove themselves in the end to have a modernist attitude to the fragmentation of truths and values which we have seen in the twentieth century.

Yap and the atolls of Ulithi and Ngulu to be certain that no support of any kind could come from them to the garrison at Palau, They hit Yap first, early on the afternoon of September 6, with thirty-five Hellcats carrying rockets, fragmentation clusters and plenty of .

There are many types of bullets, jacketed, not-jacketed, pointed, hollow-nosed, hollow- points, flatnose, roundnose, all these different shapes will have a different influence on the pattern of the wound and the degree of fragmentation.

His neural nanonics automatically fired a salvo of fragmentation rounds at the renewed charge.