fragmented

adjective

frag·ment·ed ˈfrag-ˌmen-təd

: broken or separated into distinct parts

Another fragmented language group is the Austroasiatic family, whose most widely spoken languages are Vietnamese and Cambodian.—

Jared Diamond

The reality seems to be that the global audience for movies has become increasingly diverse and fragmented, which runs against Hollywood's obsession with finding that magic common denominator.—

Peter Bart

computing : having related or associated pieces of stored data disorganized in a way that makes them more difficult to access

Fragmented files require much more work to read than contiguous files, because to do so DOS must chase down each sector, possibly moving the disk head back and forth many times. Each of these … slows the task at hand and results in additional wear and tear on your hard disk.—

Brett Glass

You probably won't notice a marked performance boost unless your hard drive is extremely fragmented.—

Doug Stanley

Examples of fragmented in a Sentence

restoring the fragmented Roman sculpture was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle

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In a fragmented global order marked by competition and pragmatic transactionalism, Trump’s policies could increase the global South’s leverage, enabling it to play great powers off one another. —

Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 Once exposed, living in fragmented forests close to humans, the monkeys can more easily come into contact with diseases, including human ones. —

Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025 More choice and complexity With the Hulu + Live and Fubo tie-up, sports fans would have more choices but would still have to navigate a highly fragmented marketplace because of the high-stakes competition for sports rights. —

Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025 Building In-House Expertise Can Help Reduce High External Consultant Costs Heavy reliance on external expertise contributes significantly to soft costs and fragmented decision-making, which complicates project implementation. —

Ankit Mishra, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for fragmented