fragmentation

IPA: frægmʌntˈeɪʃʌn

The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
(computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
(computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.

Examples of "fragmentation" in Sentences

"We inherited the fragmentation from the previous administration."
Here is what the BBC's Middle East Editor has to say about what he calls the fragmentation of Palestinian society:
So these trends are accelerating very quickly, and definitely what we're seeing is what I call a fragmentation of male identity.
Mr. Jobs cited the example of TweetDeck, a program used by people to access Twitter, to argue that Android fragmentation is a problem for app developers.
The use of the term fragmentation to describe Google's Android operating system has no merit because people can't agree what the term means, according to an Android developer.
This seems to me, however, a consequence of the fact that Aue's "narrative consciousness" inherently veersfrom "confessional" to "argumentative," etc., not that this fragmentation is a flaw in the use of point of view.
That's what they call a fragmentation issue, where you fragment the natural landscape to where the needs of species are unable to be met, because they cannot move or they cannot behave in natural patterns and behaviors.