See Also: defragment(dictionary)

afield (iou) and defragment (iou)


afield (iou)



afield adverb. ME.
[from A preposition1 1 + FIELD noun.]
In or to the field. ME.
Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ?neas is a-field. W. Morris Afield he never went, Either to hunting or the frontier war. E. Pound High grain a-field, hundred-fold yield.
Away from Home; to or at a distance. LME.
C. Kingsley I had..never been further afield than Fulham.

defragment (iou)



defragment verb trans. L20.
[from DE- 3 + FRAGMENT verb.]
Computing. Of Software: reduce the fragmentation of (a file) by concatenating parts stored in separate locations on a disk.
defragmen'tation noun L20.
defragmenter noun L20.