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Definition of "defragment" [defragment]

  • To reorganize (a computer file) to eliminate fragmentation. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "defragment" in a sentence
  • "If the disk is otherwise fine one way to defragment is to clone everything to a backup drive, erase the first drive, then clone everything back again."
  • "A friend of mine suggested that I "defragment" my computer every once in a while."
  • "Yeah, a file-to-file copy will kind of defragment my system, but is there something wrong with my method?"
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