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frag·ment

(frăg′mənt)

1. A small part broken off or detached.

2. An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit: overheard fragments of their conversation; extant fragments of an old manuscript.

3. Grammar A sentence fragment.

v. (-mĕnt′) frag·ment·ed, frag·ment·ing, frag·ments

v.tr.

To break or separate (something) into fragments.

v.intr.

To become broken into fragments: After the election, the coalition fragmented.

[Middle English, from Latin fragmentum, from frangere, frag-, to break; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.]

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fragment

1. a piece broken off or detached: fragments of rock.

2. an incomplete piece; portion: fragments of a novel.

3. a scrap; morsel; bit

to break or cause to break into fragments

[C15: from Latin fragmentum, from frangere to break]

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frag•ment

(n. ˈfræg mənt; v. ˈfræg mənt, -mɛnt, frægˈmɛnt)

n.

1. a part broken off or detached.

2. an isolated part.

3. an odd piece; scrap.

v.i.

4. to collapse or break into fragments.

v.t.

5. to break (something) into pieces or fragments.

6. to divide into fragments; disunify.

[1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin fragmentum a broken piece, remnant, derivative of fra(n)g(ere) to break]

fragment

Past participle: fragmented
Gerund: fragmenting

Imperative
fragment
fragment

Present
I fragment
you fragment
he/she/it fragments
we fragment
you fragment
they fragment

Preterite
I fragmented
you fragmented
he/she/it fragmented
we fragmented
you fragmented
they fragmented

Present Continuous
I am fragmenting
you are fragmenting
he/she/it is fragmenting
we are fragmenting
you are fragmenting
they are fragmenting

Present Perfect
I have fragmented
you have fragmented
he/she/it has fragmented
we have fragmented
you have fragmented
they have fragmented

Past Continuous
I was fragmenting
you were fragmenting
he/she/it was fragmenting
we were fragmenting
you were fragmenting
they were fragmenting

Past Perfect
I had fragmented
you had fragmented
he/she/it had fragmented
we had fragmented
you had fragmented
they had fragmented

Future
I will fragment
you will fragment
he/she/it will fragment
we will fragment
you will fragment
they will fragment

Future Perfect
I will have fragmented
you will have fragmented
he/she/it will have fragmented
we will have fragmented
you will have fragmented
they will have fragmented

Future Continuous
I will be fragmenting
you will be fragmenting
he/she/it will be fragmenting
we will be fragmenting
you will be fragmenting
they will be fragmenting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been fragmenting
you have been fragmenting
he/she/it has been fragmenting
we have been fragmenting
you have been fragmenting
they have been fragmenting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been fragmenting
you will have been fragmenting
he/she/it will have been fragmenting
we will have been fragmenting
you will have been fragmenting
they will have been fragmenting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been fragmenting
you had been fragmenting
he/she/it had been fragmenting
we had been fragmenting
you had been fragmenting
they had been fragmenting

Conditional
I would fragment
you would fragment
he/she/it would fragment
we would fragment
you would fragment
they would fragment

Past Conditional
I would have fragmented
you would have fragmented
he/she/it would have fragmented
we would have fragmented
you would have fragmented
they would have fragmented

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Noun	1.	fragment - a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock" chip, fleck, scrap, bit, flake - a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" brickbat - a fragment of brick used as a weapon 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 - a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file paring, shaving, sliver - a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something part, piece - a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" 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" spark - a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction
	2.	fragment - a broken piece of a brittle artifact shard, sherd piece - a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence" potsherd - a shard of pottery
	3.	fragment - an incomplete piece; "fragments of a play" piece - an artistic or literary composition; "he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests" snatch, bit - a small fragment; "overheard snatches of their conversation"
Verb	1.	fragment - break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented" fragmentise, fragmentize, break up atomise, atomize - break up into small particles; "the fine powder had been atomized by air" comminute, bray, mash, crunch, grind - reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" pound - break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle; "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone" come apart, break, split up, fall apart, separate - become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" sunder - break apart or in two, using violence sliver, splinter - break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered" rag - break into lumps before sorting; "rag ore" crumb - break into crumbs brecciate - break into breccia; "brecciate rock" crush - break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy" grind, grate - make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"

fragment

noun

1. piece, part, bit, scrap, particle, portion, fraction, shiver, shred, remnant, speck, sliver, wisp, morsel, oddment, chip She read everything, digesting every fragment of news.

verb

1. break, split, shatter, crumble, shiver, disintegrate, splinter, come apart, break into pieces, come to pieces It's an exploded fracture - the bones have fragmented.
break link, marry, bond, combine, compound, merge, unify, fuse, synthesize, join together

2. break up, divide, split up, disunite Their country's politics has fragmented into disarray.

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fragment

noun

1. Residual matter:

butt, end, ort (often used in plural), scrap, shard, stub.

2. A tiny amount:

bit, crumb, dab, dash, dot, dram, drop, grain, iota, jot, minim, mite, modicum, molecule, ort, ounce, particle, scrap, scruple, shred, smidgen, speck, tittle, trifle, whit.

Chiefly British: spot.

verb

To reduce or become reduced to pieces or components:

break down, break up, crumble, decompose, disintegrate, dissolve, fragmentize.

Translations

قِسْمٌ من، جُزء صَغير منكِسْرَه، شَظِيَّهيَنْكَسِر، يَتَشَظّى

fragmentroztříštit sestřepinaúlomek

fragmentgå i stykkerskår

FragmentfragmentierenScherbe zerbrechen bröckeln

θραύσμα

fragmento trozo hacerse añicos pedazo retazo

murtaaosanenrikkoutuasirpalesirpaloitua

fragmenter morceau

fragmentfragmentiratiodlomakulomak

darabokra hullik

brotsplundra

frammentare frammento frantume spezzone

断片破片

fragmentasfragmentiškasnuolaužašukė

daļadrumslafragmentslauskasaplīst

bruddstykke fragment

фрагмент

fragmentroztrieštiť saúlomok

drobeckošček

kırıntı parçaparçala mak

使成碎片未完成部分碎片

fragment

A. [ˈfrægmənt] N → fragmento m

B. [frægˈment] VT → fragmentar

C. [frægˈment] VI [alliance, group] → fragmentarse; [glass, china] → hacerse añicos

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fragment

[ˈfrægmənt]

[glass, metal] → morceau m; [bone] → fragment m

[news] → élément m

[frægˈmɛnt] vi

(= disintegrate) [organization, group] → se fragmenter
to fragment into sth → se diviser en qch

(= break) → se fissurer

[frægˈmɛnt] vt

(= break)

(= divide) → diviser

fragment

→ Bruchstück nt; (of china, glass) → Scherbe f; (of shell, food) → Stückchen nt; (of paper, letter) → Schnipsel m; (of programme, opera etc) → Bruchteil m; he smashed it to fragments → er schlug es in Stücke; the window smashed into fragments → das Fenster zersprang in Scherben; fragments of conversation → Gesprächsfetzen pl

(esp Liter, Mus, = unfinished work) → Fragment nt

vi (rock, glass) → (zer)brechen, in Stücke brechen; (fig) (hopes) → sich zerschlagen; (society) → zerfallen

vt rock, glass → in Stücke brechen; (with hammer etc) → in Stücke schlagen; (fig) society → zerschlagen; audience → aufsplittern; market, industry, work → fragmentieren

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fragment

[n ˈfrægməntː vb frægˈmɛnt]

1. n → frammento
fragments of conversation → brani mpl di conversazione

2. vi → frammentarsi

fragment

(ˈfrӕgmənt) noun

1. a piece broken off. The floor was covered with fragments of glass.

2. something which is not complete. a fragment of poetry.

(fragˈment, (American) ˈfragmənt) verb

to break into pieces. The glass is very strong but will fragment if dropped on the floor.

ˈfragmentary adjective

made of pieces; incomplete. a fragmentary account of what happened.

frag·ment

n. fragmento, parte;

v. fragmentar, romper, dividir en pedazos.

fragment

n fragmento

References in classic literature ?

I was interested by finding on the highest peak of on range (about 700 feet above the sea) a great arched fragment, lying on its convex side, or back downwards.

The quartz rock must have bee quite pasty when it underwent such remarkable flexure without being shattered into fragments. As the quart insensibly passes into the sandstone, it seems probable tha the former owes its origin to the sandstone having bee heated to such a degree that it became viscid, and upon cooling crystallized.

In many parts of the island the bottoms of the valleys ar covered in an extraordinary manner by myriads of grea loose angular fragments of the quartz rock, forming "stream of stones." These have been mentioned with surprise b every voyager since the time of Pernety.

In some places, a continuous stream of these fragments followed up the course of a valley, and eve extended to the very crest of the hill.

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In this fragment, entitled "Underground," this person introduces himself and his views, and, as it were, tries to explain the causes owing to which he has made his appearance and was bound to make his appearance in our midst.

View in context

This done, she swept up such fragments of the torn paper in the basket as had fallen on the floor; threw them back again into the basket, along with the gum-bottle; fetched the bucket, and emptied the basket into it; and then proceeded to the fourth and last room in the corridor, where she finished her work for that day.

And there, hidden deep somewhere in the mound, the fragments of the letter must be.

Upon examination, they proved to be the fragments of a tradesman's prospectus.

And, more precious still, there, under it, were more fragments of written paper, all stuck together in a little lump, by the last drippings from the gum-bottle dropping upon them as they lay on the dust-heap!

The fragments accidentally stuck together would, in all probability, be found to fit each other, and would certainly (in any case) be the easiest fragments to reconstruct as a center to start from.

(as usual in letters) traced on both sides of the paper, and it could only be preserved for the purpose of reconstruction by splitting each morsel into two--so as artificially to make a blank side, on which could be spread the fine cement used for reuniting the fragments in their original form.

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These poetic fragments clearly antedate the "Life" itself, which seems to have been so written round them as to supply appropriate occasions for their composition.