Definition of fragments Fragments
/fɹæˈgmʌnts/ - [fratgmunts] -
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- fragments (Noun)
Plural of fragment.
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| fragment - a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock" | ||
| part, piece something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together" | ||
| fleck, flake, scrap, chip, bit a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used; "she jotted it on a scrap of paper"; "there was not a scrap left" | ||
| brickbat blunt criticism | ||
| cinder, clinker a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | ||
| clast (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock | ||
| ember, coal a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering | ||
| filing preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.; "I have some filing to do" | ||
| paring, sliver, shaving (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel; "she could peel an apple with a single long paring" | ||
| restriction fragment the fragment of DNA that is produced by cleaving DNA with a restriction enzyme | ||
| scraping (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected; "they collected blood scrapings for analysis" | ||
| spall, spawl a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge; "a truck bearing a mound of blue spalls" | ||
| fragment - an incomplete piece; "fragments of a play" | ||
| piece a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence" | ||
| fragment - a broken piece of a brittle artifact | ||
| shard, sherd | ||
| piece a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence" | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- fragment (v. t.)
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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fragment
A small fragment of something broken off from the whole. -
fragment
To cause to be broken into pieces.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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fragment
frag′ment, n. a piece broken off: an unfinished portion.—adj. Frag′mental (also -ment′).—adv. Frag′mentarily.—n. Frag′mentariness.—adjs. Frag′mentary, Frag′mented, consisting of fragments or pieces: broken. [Fr.,—L. fragmentum, frangĕre, to break.]
