Usually means: Reorganize data to improve efficiency.
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  1. defragment: Merriam-Webster
  2. defragment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defragment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defragment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Defragment, defragment: Wordnik
  6. defragment: Wiktionary
  7. defragment: Dictionary.com
  8. Defragment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. defragment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. defragment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. defragment: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. defragment: CCI Computer
  3. Defragment: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  4. defragment: Encyclopedia

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verb:  (computing) To run a process that collects fragments of files and sorts them into contiguous sections on one or more hard disks or hard disk partitions, thus speeding up file management.

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