"defragment" meaning in English

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      "sense": "to run a process to make file fragments on a hard disk contiguous",
      "word": "desfragmentar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "lang_code": "sh",
      "sense": "to run a process to make file fragments on a hard disk contiguous",
      "word": "defragmentirati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "to run a process to make file fragments on a hard disk contiguous",
      "word": "desfragmentar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "defragment"
}