Fragment
noun, verb ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
"a fragment of an ancient writing"
- 2 a broken piece of a brittle artifact wordnet
- 3 A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
- 4 an incomplete piece wordnet
- 5 An incomplete portion of code.
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- 6 a piece broken off or cut off of something else wordnet
- 7 A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign. Internet
"The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment."
- 8 A split piece of an organism that has undergone the asexual reproduction process where the organism splits into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
- 1 To break apart. intransitive
"Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized."
- 2 break or cause to break into pieces wordnet
- 3 To cause to be broken into pieces. transitive
"Samois includes celebate ^([sic]), heterosexual and bisexual women as well as lesbians, and I feel very strongly that this is the wisest choice. Our community is so fragile that we can't afford to fragment it by excommunicating non-lesbian women."
- 4 To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk. transitive
- 5 Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals. intransitive
Example
More examples"An idea is an immaterial model of a real or a supposed element of reality. An idea is a fragment of our thoughts. When we think something, that single thought is an idea. Ideas are the atoms of the thoughts, and thoughts are a combination of ideas."
Etymology
From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“to break”) + -mentum.