0 the action or process of breaking something into small parts or of being broken up in this way:
It was partly the fragmentation of the opposition which helped to get the Republicans re-elected.
He claimed that social fragmentation was a by-product of the internet.
A schistocyte is a red blood cell undergoing fragmentation.
1 a situation in which an industry or business activity has many companies but no one company is more important than the others:
Our main concern was preventing further political fragmentation.
They blamed the rail crash on the fragmentation of the rail industry since privatisation.
Permitting the mining would cause serious fragmentation to the rural landscape.
Embryos with excessive fragmentation have limited developmental potential.
This confident, swingeing condemnation in part reflected the disarray, fragmentation, and anxieties of the evangelical movement as a whole by the 1890s.
The fragmentation of villages and the formation of new villages by inhabitants of existing ones can be seen as another dimension of the same phenomenon.
Impact of forest fragmentation on seedling abundance in a tropical rain forest.
Impact of forest fragmentation on seedling i abundance in a tropical rainforest.
