Shrapnel vs Fragmentation - What's the difference?
shrapnel | fragmentation |
(historical) An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
A collective term for shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell or landmine.
(slang) Loose change.
debris caused by action of persons or animals.
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.
As nouns the difference between shrapnel and fragmentation
is that shrapnel is (historical) an anti-personnel artillery shell used in wwi which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually while fragmentation is the act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.shrapnel
English
(wikipedia shrapnel)Noun
(-)- The dog did not eat my sandwich. It was in a bag. If he had eaten my sandwich, there'd be shrapnel all over the place from him tearing open the bag.