Fragments of a vessel A mirror frame fragment From LateMiddle English fragment , fromLatin fragmentum ( “ a fragment, remnant ” ) , fromfrangō ( “ to break ” ) +-mentum .
fragment (plural fragments )
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or notSynonyms: chip ,lump ;see also Thesaurus:piece afragment of an ancient writing
I heard a smallfragment of the conversation.
2012 , William Matthews,The Tragedy of Arthur [1] ,University of California Press , page68 :[ …] and two enormous Scottish poems, theBuik of Alexander , which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay'sBuik of Alexander the Conquerour ; one nearly completeProse Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of theFuerres de Gadres which survives only in afragment , theRomance of Cassamus , and three separate translations of theSecreta Secretorum .
( grammar ) Asentence not containing a subject or a predicate; asentence fragment .( computing ) Anincomplete portion ofcode .( Internet ) A portion of aURL referring to asubordinate resource oranchor (such as a specific point on aweb page ), introduced by the# sign.Holonym: anchor link The URLwww.example.com/home#recent ends with afragment .
2006 , Michael Mahemoff,Ajax Design Patterns , O'Reilly Media,→ISBN ,page523 :Unique URLs requires you to make like an information architect and do some URL design work. Possibly, you'll be controlling only thefragment identifier rather than the entire URL, but even thefragment identifier has usability implications.
( biology ) A split piece of anorganism that has undergone theasexual reproduction process where the organism splits into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.portion or segment of an object
Arabic:قِطْعَة f ( qiṭʕa ) ,شَقَفَة f ( šaqafa ) ,كَسْرَة f ( kasra ) Hijazi Arabic:قِطْعة f ( giṭʕa ) ,شِقْفة f ( šigfa ) ,كَسْرة f ( kasra ) Armenian:կտոր (hy) ( ktor ) Belarusian:аске́пак m ( askjépak ) ,аскалёпак m ( askaljópak ) ,аско́лак m ( askólak ) ,фрагме́нт m ( frahmjént ) ,фрагмэ́нт m ( frahmént ) ,абло́мак m ( ablómak ) ,адло́мак m ( adlómak ) ,зло́мак m ( zlómak ) ,кусо́к m ( kusók ) Bulgarian:къс (bg) m ( kǎs ) ,парче́ (bg) n ( parčé ) ,отло́мък (bg) m ( otlómǎk ) ,фрагме́нт (bg) m ( fragmént ) Catalan:fragment (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:碎片 (zh) ( suìpiàn ) ,碎屑 (zh) ( suìxiè ) ,斷片 / 断片 (zh) ( duànpiàn ) ,碴兒 / 碴儿 (zh) ( chár ) Czech:úlomek (cs) m ,fragment (cs) m ,zlomek (cs) m ,střep (cs) m Danish:fragment (da) n Dutch:fragment (nl) n Esperanto:fragmento (eo) Finnish:sirpale (fi) ,osanen (fi) ,fragmentti (fi) French:fragment (fr) m Galician:fragmento (gl) m ,retrinco m German:Fragment (de) n ,Bruchstück (de) n Greek:θραύσμα (el) n ( thráfsma ) Ancient Greek:θραῦμα n ( thraûma ) ,κλάσμα n ( klásma ) Hebrew:פָּרוּר (he) m ( parur ) ,רְסִיס (he) m ( resís ) Hindi:अंश (hi) m ( añś ) ,खंड (hi) m ( khaṇḍ ) ,टुकड़ा m ( ṭukṛā ) ,भाग (hi) m ( bhāg ) Hungarian:töredék (hu) ,darab (hu) Indonesian:fragmen (id) Irish:boim m ( literary ) ,blúire m Italian:frammento (it) m Japanese:断片 (ja) ( だんぺん, danpen ) ,破片 (ja) ( はへん, hahen ) ( especially a broken part ) ,フラグメント ( furagumento ) ,欠片 (ja) ( かけら, kakera ) Kazakh:фрагмент ( fragment ) ,үзік ( üzık ) ,үзiндi ( üzindi ) Korean:조각 (ko) ( jogak ) ,파편(破片) (ko) ( papyeon ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:لەت ( let ) Latin:fragmen n ,fragmentum n Macedonian:одломка f ( odlomka ) Malay:serpihan ,fragmen Māori:mōrohe ,mōtete ,kuru ,rutunga ,kongakonga ,kora ,korakora ,tūāporo ,porohanga ,rutunga ,tīmokamoka Norwegian:Bokmål:fragment n ,bruddstykke n Nynorsk:fragment n Occitan:fragment (oc) m Old English:ġebrot n Old Norse:brot n Persian:قطعه (fa) ( qet'e ) ,پارچه (fa) ( pârče ) Polish:część (pl) f ,fragment (pl) m ,kawałek (pl) m ,urywek (pl) m Portuguese:fragmento (pt) m Romanian:bucată (ro) f ,fragment (ro) n ,fărâmă (ro) f ,crâmpei (ro) n Russian:оско́лок (ru) m ( oskólok ) ,обло́мок (ru) m ( oblómok ) ,кусо́к (ru) m ( kusók ) ,фрагме́нт (ru) m ( fragmént ) Sanskrit:खण्ड (sa) n ( khaṇḍa ) Scots:pran Scottish Gaelic:bìdeag f ,criomag f ,mìr m Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:фра̀гмент m ,у̀ломак m ,о̀дломак m ,ко̀ма̄д m Latin:fràgment (sh) m ,ùlomak (sh) m ,òdlomak (sh) m ,kòmād (sh) m Slovak:úlomok m ,zlomok m ,kúsok m ,fragment m Slovene:drobec m Spanish:fragmento (es) Swedish:fragment (sv) n Tagalog:kapiraso (tl) Tajik:порча ( porča ) Turkish:parça (tr) ,bölüm (tr) ,kısım (tr) ,kırıntı (tr) ,fragman (tr) Ottoman Turkish:پارچه ( parça ) Ukrainian:шмат m ( šmat ) ,шмато́к m ( šmatók ) ,кусо́к m ( kusók ) ,ку́сень m ( kúsenʹ ) ,фрагме́нт m ( frahmént ) ,ула́мок m ( ulámok ) ,кусо́к m ( kusók ) Uyghur:پارچە ( parche ) Uzbek:parcha (uz) Yiddish:פֿראַגמענט m ( fragment )
fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments ,present participle fragmenting ,simple past and past participle fragmented )
( intransitive ) Tobreak apart.2023 July 31, Charles Hugh Smith,Lessons from the Unraveling of the Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization [2] :Once the centralized power of Romefragmented , economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.
( transitive ) To cause to bebroken into pieces.1982 December 18, Pat Califa, “Open Policy”, inGay Community News , volume10 , number22 , 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 tofragment 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 theasexual reproduction process where anorganism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.to cause to be broken into pieces
“fragment ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC . William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “fragment ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] , New York, N.Y.:The Century Co. ,→OCLC .fragment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Learned borrowing fromLatin fragmentum ( “ a fragment, remnant ” ) .
fragment m (plural fragments )
afragment “fragment ”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language ] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans ], April 2007 “fragment ”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana ,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana ,2026 “fragment” inDiccionari normatiu valencià ,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua .“fragment” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.Learned borrowing fromLatin fragmentum . First attested in the 19th century.[ 1]
fragment m inan
fragment ( portion or segment of an object ) Declension offragment (hard masculine inanimate )
^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015 ), “fragment”, inČeský etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary ] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA,→ISBN , page195 Learned borrowing fromLatin fragmentum ( “ a fragment, remnant ” ) . Influence byFrench fragment .
IPA (key ) : /frɑxˈmɛnt/ Hyphenation:frag‧ment Rhymes:-ɛnt fragment n (plural fragmenten ,diminutive fragmentje n )
afragment , brokenportion afragment , part of a work( whether due to selection or incompleteness ) “fragment ” inWoordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling , Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language] Learned borrowing fromLatin fragmentum ( “ a fragment, remnant ” ) .
fragment m (plural fragments )
fragment Learned borrowing fromLatin fragmentum .
fragment [ 1] ( Late Middle English )
asmall part orpiece ; afragment Borrowed fromLatin fragmentum .
fragment n (definite singular fragmentet ,indefinite plural fragment or fragmenter ,definite plural fragmenta or fragmentene )
afragment Borrowed fromLatin fragmentum .
fragment n (definite singular fragmentet ,indefinite plural fragment ,definite plural fragmenta )
afragment Learned borrowing fromLatin fragmentum .
fragment m inan
fragment ,excerpt ,passage Synonym: urywek fragment inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANfragment in Polish dictionaries at PWNBorrowed fromFrench fragment ,Latin fragmentum .
fragment n (plural fragmente )
fragment Synonyms: bucată ,frântură Borrowed fromLatin fragmentum .
IPA (key ) : /frǎɡment/ Hyphenation:frag‧ment fràgment m inan (Cyrillic spelling фра̀гмент )
fragment “fragment ”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal ] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2026 Ultimately fromLatin fragmentum .
IPA (key ) : /fraɡment/ ,[ˈfraɡment] Rhymes:-aɡment Hyphenation:frag‧ment fragment m inan (relational adjective fragmentový or fragmentárny )
fragment ( archaeologically or historically valuable fragmentary part of a larger whole ) Synonyms: úlomok ,zlomok fragment ( partially preserved or unfinished work of art ) fragment ( part of a larger whole ) ( biology , genetics ) fragment ( part of a broken chromosome ) “fragment ”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science ] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk ,2003–2026 Borrowed fromLatin fragmentum .
fragment n
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