Word: defragments
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: de
frag
ments
Definition: Third-person singular of defragment. 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.
Morphemes:
Affix: de-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: reversal, undoing, removing
Etymology Compounds: Affix: dē-
Language: la
Decoded: de-
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: de-
Affix: fragment
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: fragmentum
Language: la
Decoded: fragmentum
Meaning: a fragment, remnant
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form regular plurals of nouns.