Verb: defragment dee'frag-munt [N. Amer], ,dee-frag'ment [Brit]
- (computing) reduce fragmentation of a file (or all files) on a storage device by moving separated parts into a contiguous location
"He ran a program to defragment his hard drive and improve its performance";
- defrag [informal]
Derived forms: defragments, defragmenting, defragmented
Encyclopedia: Defragment