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English

Fragments of a vessel
A mirror frame fragment

Etymology

From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“I break”) +‎ -mentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

fragment (plural fragments)

  1. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
    Synonyms: chip, lump; see also Thesaurus:piece
    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.
  2. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
  3. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
  5. (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#recent ends 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.
  6. (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.

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Verb

fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)

  1. (intransitive) To break apart.
    • 2023 July 31, Charles Hugh Smith, Lessons from the Unraveling of the Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization‎:
      Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.
  2. (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.
  3. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
  4. (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.

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Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

  1. a fragment

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Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

fragment m inan

  1. fragment (portion or segment of an object)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
singular plural
nominative fragment fragmenty
genitive fragmentu fragmentů
dative fragmentu fragmentům
accusative fragment fragmenty
vocative fragmente fragmenty
locative fragmentu fragmentech
instrumental fragmentem fragmenty
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Declension of fragment (hard masculine inanimate)

Further reading

  • “fragment”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “fragment”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “fragment”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”). Influence by French fragment.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /frɑxˈmɛnt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: frag‧ment
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmenten, diminutive fragmentje n)

  1. a fragment, broken portion
  2. a fragment, part of a work (whether due to selection or incompleteness)

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Descendants

  • → Indonesian: fragmen

Further reading

  • “fragment” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

  1. fragment

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