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A piece broken off of something else
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fragment
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "small piece or part," from Latin fragmentum "a fragment, remnant," literally "a piece broken off," from root of frangere "to break" (see fraction ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing. 2 (context grammar English) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate. 3 (context computing English) (rfdef: English) vb. 1 (context intransitive ...
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock" a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: shard , sherd ] an incomplete piece; "fragments of a play" v. break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented" [syn: break up ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. --John vi. 12.
Usage examples of fragment.
In understandably emphasizing the importance and the urgency of eco-holistic fit, the holists have absolutized the Lower-Right quadrant, which, in thus sealing it off from any true integration, condemns it to the fate of all fragments.
Between the ships and the blue and white planet curved a vast section of the broken accelerator ring, a section so huge that it was impossible to tell from close up that it was a mere fragment of what had once been the greatest monument of interstellar civilization.
Among these were drawings of two small fragments of agate, inscribed with characters.
In the south transept there are fragments of Perpendicular glass in the east aisle, including figures of Michael, Gabriel, and St.
He would wander upstairs, Alan knew, to his pitch-black, book-strewn bedroom, where he would lie on his elegant four-poster until the fragment of another chapter came to him.
Harben lowered his crude alpenstock over the edge of the rock fragment.
Bits of bone alveolar fragments, as he explained, between two of his exhalations flew out.
Hiawatha Smote amain the hollow oak-tree, Rent it into shreds and splinters, Left it lying there in fragments.
The fragment contains parts of two familiar episodes, the anointing of Jesus by Mary of Bethany and the instigation of the eucharist at the Last Supper, both of which are important in our investigation, and such an early date would support the arguments put forward in Chapters Twelve and Thirteen.
Under this arcading in the transept is a doorway, built by Lord Grimthorpe, partly from fragments of the west doorway of the old slype, and partly from his own design.
Noetic shreds, arkose shards, biotite fragments tumbling and grinding in a dry breccia slurry.
Russian spaceflight pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky argued a century ago that there must be bodies intermediate ill size between the observed large asteroids and those asteroidal fragments, the meteorites, that occasionally fall to Earth.
As it tore down the autobahn toward Frankfurt, the bumping caused the heavy springs above the front wheels to retract slightly, crushing the small bulb between the jaws of the bomb trigger to fragments of glass.
It is a fragment from a thin vein of malachite and azurite, or green and blue carbonate of copper, and has been but little changed from its original condition.
I could, bandaged the injury with the cleanest fragment of shift, then tied the tough leaves to her feet like sandals.