piece, part, fraction; segment; sliver
be broken into fragments; break into pieces, separate into fragments
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Fragment Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
fragment
\frag"ment\ (?), n. [l. fragmentum, fr. frangere to break: cf. f. fragment. see break, v. t.] a part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing. gather up the fragments that remain. vi. 12.
fragment
n
1. a piece broken off of something else; "a fragment of rock"
2. a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: shard, sherd]
3. an incomplete piece; "fragments of a play" v : break or cause to break into pieces; "the plate fragmented"; "i don't want to break up the group" [syn: break up, fragmentize, fragmentise]
Cilc = n. a fragment, a corner
Difyn = n. a fragment
Drag = n. fragment, piece
Hil = n. a fragment; emanation; produce; issue; progency
Swrwd = n. shreds; dress; fragment
Talch = n. fragment; grist
Noun
1. a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock"
(hypernym) part, piece
(hyponym) bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap
(derivation) break up, fragmentize, fragmentise
2. a broken piece of a brittle artifact
(synonym) shard, sherd
(hypernym) piece
(hyponym) potsherd
(derivation) break up, fragmentize, fragmentise
3. an incomplete piece; "fragments of a play"
(hypernym) piece
(hyponym) snatch, bit
(derivation) break up, fragmentize, fragmentise
Verb
1. break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"
(synonym) break up, fragmentize, fragmentise
(hypernym) break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
(hyponym) atomize, atomise
Fragment Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
A small mass of soil produced by a disturbance.
: A small mass of soil produced by a disturbance.
Fragment Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
A piece of a packet. When a router is forwarding an IP packet to a network that has a maximum packet size smaller than the packet size, it is forced to break up that packet into multiple fragments. These fragments will be reassembled by the IP layer at the destination host.
Fragment Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Fragment may refer to:
- A small or broken off something; debris
- Fragment (computer graphics), all the data necessary to generate a pixel in the frame buffer
- Literary fragment, a brief or unfinished work of prose
- Sentence fragment, a sentence not containing a subject or a predicate
- Fragment identifier, the segment of a URL following the "#" that identifies a portion of a larger document
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Fragment Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
