Fragmentation

Fragmentation (from Latin frāgmentum for '(break) piece, remnant' to frangere 'break'; -ieren 'formation of something') generally means "dissection" and names the following terms:

in the social sciences:

• in sociology, the social fragmentation, i.e. the division of society into " parallel societies " or the isolation of people ( individualization )
• in psychology, the dissociation of perception, or more generally: the identity , self, or self of a person; see also coherence
• in urban geography, the division of previously homogeneous sub-areas of a city into smaller, separate socio-spatial units, see also segregation (sociology) #city as an example

in computer science:

• generally the fragmentation or breakdown of memory areas, see fragmentation (information technology)
• the waste , see internal fragmentation
• in TCP / IP networks the division of an IP data packet into several physical data blocks, see IP fragmentation
• In the case of block-oriented data carriers, the distribution of related data to non-consecutive data blocks, see fragmentation (file system)
• the distribution of the data in distributed and parallel database systems, see denormalization # fragmentation

in other sciences:

• Habitat fragmentation : in ecology for the islanding of mainland habitats.
• Fragmentation (mass spectrometry) : in physics, the (intentional) division of a molecule into smaller fragments in different ways for mass spectrometry
• Fragmentation (genetics) : dividing an 'old' ( English ancient ) nucleic acid molecule ( DNA , RNA ) into smaller fragments over time (biological half-life)

See also:

• Disintegration
• Dismembration
• Fragment (disambiguation)
• Split (disambiguation)
• Decay (disambiguation)

Wiktionary: fragmentation  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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