fragment
Collocations
4ADJ.
ancient, broken, giant, over, small, tiny
VERB + FRAGMENT
collapse, fallen, forces, heard, remove
FRAGMENT + NOUN
continent, conversation, cornice, ice
PREP.
in, off, than
Definitions
noun
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
a fragment of an ancient writing
I heard a small fragment of the conversation.
A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
An incomplete portion of code.
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.
The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.
Unique URLs requires you to make like an information architect and do some URL design work. Possibly, you'll be controlling only the fragment identifier rather than the entire URL, but even the fragment identifier has usability implications.
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.
verb
To break apart.
Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.
To cause to be broken into pieces.
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.
To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a broken piece of a brittle artifact
- shard
- sherd
verb — break or cause to break into pieces
- fragmentize
- fragmentise
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6a fragment of an ancient writing
WiktionaryI heard a small fragment of the conversation.
Wiktionary[…]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alex
WiktionaryOnce the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.
WiktionarySamois 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 fra
WiktionaryThere's a tiny fragment that's broken off.
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