fragmented

Markets are thus not easily accessible and become fragmented.

Currently, the approach to monitoring bird flu in dairy cows is fragmented and depends on each state's cooperation.

Females, the study found, have even shorter bouts of sleep -- essentially, their sleep is more fragmented.

In our fragmented media landscape, it can be difficult to grasp just how large Carson loomed over the culture.

She added that co-operation between forces during the riots this summer had occurred “in spite of, not because of, the system,” whilst data sharing was "slow" and governance of forensics "fragmented".