fragment
IPA: frˈægmʌnt
noun
- A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
- (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
- (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
- (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.
verb
- (intransitive) To break apart.
- (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
- (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
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Examples of "fragment" in Sentences
- The record is damaged and fragmented.
- The available data are scanty and fragmented.
- The fragmentation of titles was thus increased.
- It fragments the discussion and ferments discord.
- A fragment of the stone was discovered in the field.
- A fragment of the ghastly structure is in the library.
- He was fond of quoting a fragment from a certain poem.
- The main problem with the picture is the fragmentation.
- Fourth, the article is teeming with sentence fragments.
- His death accelerated the fragmentation of the movement.
- On the side is the fragment of the dld hermitage building.
- NOTES: As curious as the fragment is the periodical that published it.
- An odd, amorous fragment from a letter written in Rome in June 1819 has survived.
- "Again: fraction does not exist in Nature, where what you call a fragment is a finished whole.
- Before that happens, the asteroid/planet fragment is attacked by Interstellar Carrion feeding off the dead and dying planets.
- Snicker at the sight of someone praying in front of a golden reliquary that houses a shard of bone or a skin fragment from a medieval saint or a pope.
- Orange wanted to take his life; and he began to scream for a boat -- and then to cry, because he had lost a piece of wood on his ride which he called a fragment of Our Saviour's cross.
- Thursday brought another fragment from the autobiography as a night out with my son brought back a memory from my own high school days when I was the sharpest tack in the box, Young Lance Mannion, slow on the uptake.
- As they took his money and would not let him go, he told them who he was, and that the Prince of Orange wanted to take his life; and he began to scream for a boat -- and then to cry, because he had lost a piece of wood on his ride which he called a fragment of Our Saviour's cross.
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