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fragmented

[frag-muhn-tid, -men-, frag-men-]

frag·ment·ed

[frag-muhn-tid, -men-, frag-men-]
adjective
1.
reduced to fragments.
2.
existing or functioning as though broken into separate parts; disorganized; disunified: a fragmented personality; a fragmented society.

Origin:
1810–20; fragment + -ed3

non·frag·ment·ed, adjective
o·ver·frag·ment·ed, adjective
un·frag·ment·ed, adjective

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Fragmented is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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frag·ment

[n. frag-muhnt; v. frag-muhnt, -ment, frag-ment]
noun
1.
a part broken off or detached: scattered fragments of the broken vase.
2.
an isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part: She played a fragment of her latest composition.
3.
an odd piece, bit, or scrap.
verb (used without object)
4.
to collapse or break into fragments; disintegrate: The chair fragmented under his weight.
verb (used with object)
5.
to break (something) into pieces or fragments; cause to disintegrate: Outside influences soon fragmented the Mayan culture.
6.
to divide into fragments; disunify.
7.
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


1–3. See part.

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fragmented

adjective
having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group" [syn: disconnected
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