verb
- past tense and past participle of defrag; to reorganize data on a computer disk so that files are stored in contiguous blocks, improving access speed.
Usage: computing; informal
Examples
- I defragged my hard drive last night to speed up my computer.
- After defragging the disk, the system ran noticeably faster.
- She defragged her laptop before the important presentation.
- The IT department defragged all the office computers over the weekend.
- Once I defragged the drive, file access times improved significantly.