fragment
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Etymology
From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“I break”) + -mentum.
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈfɹæɡmənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (verb) IPA(key): /fɹæɡˈmɛnt/, /ˈfɹæɡmɛnt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnt
Noun
fragment (plural fragments)
- 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.
- 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68:
- […] 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 Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
- (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
- (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
- (Internet) 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.- Holonym: anchor link
- The URL
www.example.com/home#recentends with a fragment.
- 2006, Michael Mahemoff, Ajax Design Patterns, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 523:
- 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.
- (biology) A split piece of an organism that has undergone the asexual reproduction process where the organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
Derived terms
- fission fragment
- fragmentable
- fragmental
- fragment antigen binding
- fragmentary
- fragmentation
- fragment crystallizable region
- fragmentectomy
- fragmentism
- fragmentist
- fragmentography
- fragment shader
- hyperfragment
- interfragment
- Klenow fragment
- macrofragment
- megafragment
- microfragment
- multifragment
- nanofragment
- Okazaki fragment
- peptide fragment
- photofragment
- restriction fragment
- sentence fragment
- soul fragment
- stuffer fragment
- stutter fragment
- subfragment
Related terms
Translations
portion or segment of an object
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Verb
fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)
- (intransitive) To break apart.
- (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
- 1982 December 18, Pat Califa, “Open Policy”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 5:
- 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.
- (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
- (intransitive, biology) Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to break apart
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to cause to be broken into pieces
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Further reading
- “fragment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “fragment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
fragment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fragment m (plural fragments)
- a fragment
Derived terms
Further reading
- “fragment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fragment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “fragment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fragment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
fragment m inan
- fragment (portion or segment of an object)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fragment | fragmenty |
| genitive | fragmentu | fragmentů |
| dative | fragmentu | fragmentům |
| accusative | fragment | fragmenty |
| vocative | fragmente | fragmenty |
| locative | fragmentu | fragmentech |
| instrumental | fragmentem | fragmenty |
Declension of fragment (hard masculine inanimate)
Related terms
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”). Influence by French fragment.
Pronunciation
Noun
fragment n (plural fragmenten, diminutive fragmentje n)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Indonesian: fragmen
Further reading
- “fragment” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fragment m (plural fragments)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “fragment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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