"defragment" meaning in All languages combined

See defragment on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

IPA: /diːfɹæɡˈmɛnt/, /diːˈfɹæɡmɛnt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-defragment.wav Forms: defragments [present, singular, third-person], defragmenting [participle, present], defragmented [participle, past], defragmented [past]
Etymology: From de- + fragment. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|de|fragment}} de- + fragment Head templates: {{en-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. Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: defrag Derived forms: defragmentation, defragmenter Translations (to run a process to make file fragments on a hard disk contiguous): ডিফ্র্যাগমেন্ট করা (ḍiphrjagomenṭo kora) (Bengali), defragmentovat (Czech), defragmenteren (Dutch), eheyttää (Finnish), défragmenter (French), desfragmentar (Galician), defragmentieren (German), töredezettségmentesít (Hungarian), mendefragmentasi (Indonesian), deframmentare (Italian), mendefragmentasi (Malay), menyahserpih (Malay), whakatōpū kongakonga (Maori), defragmentować [imperfective] (Polish), desfragmentar (Portuguese), defragmentirati (Serbo-Croatian), desfragmentar (Spanish)

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