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Shattering vs Fragmentation - What's the difference?

shattering | fragmentation |

As nouns the difference between shattering and fragmentation

is that shattering is the act of something that shatters while fragmentation is the act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.

As a verb shattering

is .

shattering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that shatters.
  • * 1997 , J. Wright, Realism and Explanatory Priority (page 226)
    • It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings , because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass)

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    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