fragmentary
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mənˌtɛr adjective
consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
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fragmentary (ˈfræɡməntərɪ, -trɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| Also: fragmental made up of fragments; disconnected; incomplete | |
| 'fragmentarily | |
| —adv | |
| 'fragmentariness | |
| —n | |
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Fragmentary
is always a great word to know.
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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Example sentences
The past is too great, and has come down to us in too fragmentary a manner, for such coincidences to be probable.
Information about these events was fragmentary, however, and many questions were left unanswered.
Skylark received several fragmentary, garbled messages, followed by silence.
All but a few fragmentary episodes of her own long life remain unchronicled.
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