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Fission vs Fragmentation - What's the difference?

fission | fragmentation |

As nouns the difference between fission and fragmentation

is that fission is the process whereby one item splits to become two while fragmentation is the act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.

As a verb fission

is to cause to undergo fission.

fission

English

(Nuclear fission)

Noun

  • The process whereby one item splits to become two.
  • (physics) The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles; nuclear fission
  • (biology) The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells.

    • Antonyms

    * (process of splitting the nucleus of an atom) fusion

    Derived terms

    * fissile * fissionable * fissional * fission bomb

    Verb

  • To cause to undergo fission.
  • To undergo fission.

    • fragmentation

    English

    (wikipedia fragmentation)

    Noun

  • The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
  • The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.
  • (computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
  • (computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.

    • Synonyms

    * fragmentization

    Antonyms

    * defragmentation