Segmentation vs. Fragmentation — What's the Difference?

Division into segments.

The act or process of breaking into fragments.

(Embryology) See cleavage.

The scattering of the fragments of an exploding bomb or other projectile.

The act or an instance of dividing into segments

(Computers) The scattering of parts of a file or files throughout a storage device, as when the operating system breaks up the file and fits it into the spaces left vacant by previously deleted files.

The state of being divided into segments

The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.

The partitioning of an image into groups of pixels

The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.

The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation.

(computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

(embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum

(computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.

The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

The act or process of separating something into small pieces or fine particles.

Separating something into fine particles

The disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships

(computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk;

The scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes