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fragment

[n. frag-muhnt; v. frag-muhnt, -ment, frag-ment]

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noun

a part broken off or detached: scattered fragments of the broken vase.

an isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part: She played a fragment of her latest composition.

an odd piece, bit, or scrap.

verb (used without object)

to collapse or break into fragments; disintegrate: The chair fragmented under his weight.

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verb (used with object)

to break (something) into pieces or fragments; cause to disintegrate: Outside influences soon fragmented the Mayan culture.

to divide into fragments; disunify.

Computers. to split a file into smaller parts and store in non-contiguous sectors on a disk, resulting in fragmentation of both the file and available free space on the disk. Compare fragmentation (def. 4).

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin fragmentum a broken piece, remnant, equivalent to frag- (stem of frangere to break) + -mentum -ment

Synonyms
1–3. See part.

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Example Sentences

The odds of a fragment hitting your little patch of earth are extremely low.

Lacking the consortium, it was a fragment of what it was.

On the topical question of the future of the euro zone, one in five thinks the currency union will fragment.

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The odds of a fragment hitting your little patch of earth are extremely low.

Lacking the consortium, it was a fragment of what it was.

On the topical question of the future of the euro zone, one in five thinks the currency union will fragment.

But radio waves are fairly low energy, and they represent only a fragment of the star's intensity.

They will soon return to recover what may be a fragment of the cosmic object.

By morning, you should have a test tube with about a million copies of a dodo gene or gene fragment.

It's going to fragment a much larger area with pipelines and roads and facilities.

Transition to a new set of leaders could therefore cause the ruling elite to fragment as new factions gain the upper hand.

Each fragment contains microscopic fossils-pieces of plants and fungi.

Taking an electron from the carbon bond, the initiator fragment bonds itself to one of the monomer's carbon atoms.

They fragment ecosystems, send species into extinction and may even trigger earthquakes.

Offering yet another version of the same content is only going to fragment the playerbase.

Cable television changed that by starting to fragment the audience.

Two partial skulls and the fragment of a tibia had previously been discovered in the area.

Those elements are more efficient at radiating heat than hydrogen or helium is, so they help a gas cloud to cool and fragment.

Breaking a code from only a small fragment of text is exceedingly difficult, but the police did their best.

Each fragment was given a mathematical description called a spectrum.

For investors, too many new trading venues may cause liquidity to fragment.

Incongruously, her frenetic movements produce a miniscule lace fragment.

The fragment converters is made and he works strictly under the formulas.

Pierce remarked that the fragment was growing smaller and burning the bottom of the pail.

Warming is also causing glaciers to retreat and the ice caps to fragment and melt.

The booster fragment would be too small to pose a threat.

Together they form the beginning of an inventory, a fragment of an image, a pixelated map of an emerging world.

We move to a fragment of a wall relief that once depicted the tomb owner and his wife.

Crystal structure of the complex of diphtheria toxin with an extracellular fragment of its receptor.

Starting as an outstretched chain, the fragment fairly quickly collapsed.

Plastic bags fragment into small pieces that are polluting our oceans and land, and entering our food chain.

Globalization, rather than bringing us together, is causing us to fragment.

We sliced a cryptic fragment of a logo, with no clues as to what it was from.

He smashed the machine to get a sharp fragment to slice his neck and ate pieces of it, hoping to cause internal bleeding.

Let's not fragment into boards only for humanities folk, scientists, etc.

The third relationship to fragment will be that between writer and publisher.

Moreover, the bone fragment showed evidence of a less forceful impact than a modern weapon would have made.

Planetary scientists think the guilty asteroid was a fragment from a larger space.

One officer from the task force was hit by a bullet fragment under his right eye.

Should the team find even one small fragment buried in the snow, they will be able to estimate where to look for more.

By any standards, this truly endearing fragment of moviemaking is extraordinary.

It will fragment an area that's dominated by wetlands.

It is produced by normal genetic variations called restriction fragment length polymorphisms.

They also see that these competing power blocs are beginning to fragment as older, more tribal, loyalties die out.

November, and they vehemently opposed the sale of the door fragment.

Repeated swings in temperature can also weaken and eventually fragment rock, which expands when hot and shrinks when cold.

Roads also fragment and isolate turtle habitats by establishing a barrier to migration and the movement of individuals.

Maybe there's a tiny fragment of a photograph or chart visible.

Another diver hands him a chunk of stone with a decorative edge-a fragment of an ancient plate.

We found a piece of a plastic packing band and a fragment of a disposable grocery bag along with other small particles.

Each watch has a fragment of an actual meteorite-or shooting star.

Herbarium fragment folder-an acid-free and buffered paper enclosure.

Doctors discovered a metal fragment embedded deep in his brain.

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World English Dictionary

fragment

—n
1.	a piece broken off or detached: fragments of rock
2.	an incomplete piece; portion: fragments of a novel
3.	a scrap; morsel; bit

—vb
4.	to break or cause to break into fragments

[C15: from Latin fragmentum, from frangere to break]

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Word Origin & History

fragment

1530s, from L. fragmentum "a fragment, remnant," from root of frangere "to break" (see fraction). The verb is first recorded 1818 in Keats' "Endymion." Related: Fragmented; fragmenting.

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Medical Dictionary

fragment frag·ment (frāg'mənt)
n.