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defragment
verb
Definition of
defragment verb
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
defragment
verb
/
ˌdiˈfræɡmɛnt
/
(
also
informal
defrag
/
ˌdiˈfræɡ
/
)
defragment something
(
computing
)
to organize the files on a computer so that information relating to each file is stored in the same area, so the computer works faster