fragmentize

verb

Definition of fragmentizenext
as in to fragment

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  1. fragment
  2. partition
  3. segment
  4. quarter
  5. cut off
  6. bifurcate
  7. subdivide
  8. bisect
Verb
  • Farming has fragmented their rolling grassland habitat, and feeding on cattle carcasses puts them at risk of disease.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • At the same time, forests are increasingly fragmented, less actively managed, and under siege from invasive pests like the emerald ash borer and diseases like sudden oak death.
    Anne Readel, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of fragment
Verb
  • The first step is to partition the chip into high-level functional blocks, such as CPU cores, memory blocks, and so on.
    Somdeb Majumdar, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Step 4 of the Install Ubuntu tutorial below will offer to partition your hard drive.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Apr. 2013
Definition of partition
Verb
  • An accounting office could segment Wi-Fi users by business versus individual clients, automatically sharing different tax planning resources with each group.
    Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Hauenstein said Delta is looking for new ways to segment its cabins after the carrier — and rivals — spent years breaking coach class into options like premium economy, extra-legroom seats and basic economy.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of segment
Verb
  • Black women were quartered separately, on the second floor of the gatehouse.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Two hundred years ago, San Antonio quartered off its west side for Mexican Americans, who were legally barred from buying property elsewhere.
    Lily Kepner, Austin American-Statesman, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of quarter
Verb
  • Mangione had cut off contact with family and friends for six months prior to the killing, and his mother filed a missing person report with the San Francisco Police Department in November.
    Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The deal permitted it to keep doing business with Medicare, despite a law mandating that criminal pharma firms be cut off.
    Bob Fernandez, ProPublica, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of cut off
Verb
  • The center of gravity for computing is bifurcating, where, aside from datacenter AI training, performance per watt is the name of the game.
    Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • That edge is somewhat novel in Star Wars’s universe of smugglers, which typically feels bifurcated between scoundrels with a heart of gold and petty criminals who are rarely more than their base nature.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 19 June 2024
Definition of bifurcate
Verb
  • These large partitions are then subdivided into smaller ones, called macros and standard cells.
    Somdeb Majumdar, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Soon after Taylor's death in 1895, his land on both sides of Lake McDonald — predecessor to Lake Austin — was subdivided and sold.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 24 June 2024
Definition of subdivide
Verb
  • Children who have been bisected via a tragic logging accident are also half siblings, but in a different way.
    Lillian Stone, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Indigenous artisans and entrepreneurs readily adapted to the influx of visitors including the Laguna Pueblo, whose land was bisected by the railroad.
    Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of bisect
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