Meaning of FRAGMENT
| Pronunciation: | | 'fragmunt
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- [n] a broken piece of a brittle artifact
- [n] an incomplete piece; "fragments of a play"
- [n] a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock"
- [v] break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"; "I don't want to break up the group"
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| | Synonyms: | | break up, fragmentise, fragmentize, shard, sherd |
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| | See Also: | | atomise, atomize, bit, bit, bray, break, brecciate, brickbat, chip, cinder, clinker, coal, come apart, comminute, crumb, crunch, crush, ember, fall apart, filing, flake, fleck, grate, grind, mash, paring, part, piece, piece, piece, potsherd, pound, rag, restriction fragment, scrap, scraping, separate, shaving, sliver, sliver, snatch, spall, spark, spawl, splinter, split up, sunder | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Definition: | | fragmentaton |
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| | Related Terms: | | abrade, ace, ana, analects, anthology, atom, atomize, beat, bit, bray, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, brecciate, burst, butt, chip, chunk, cleave, clip, clipping, clippings, collectanea, collection, collop, come apart, comminute, contriturate, crash, crumb, crumble, crunch, crush, cut, cut to pieces, cutting, cuttings, dab, debris, demolish, diffuse, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, disperse, disrupt, dole, dollop, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, end, excerpta, excerpts, explode, extracts, farthing, fission, fleck, florilegium, flour, flowers, flyspeck, fragments, gleanings, go to pieces, gob, gobbet, grain, granulate, granule, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, groat, hair, handful, hunk, iota, jot, levigate, little, little bit, lota, lump, make mincemeat of, mash, mill, mince, minim, minimum, minutiae, miscellanea, miscellany, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, mote, nutshell, ounce, paring, part, particle, pash, pebble, pestle, pick to pieces, piece, pinch, pittance, point, portion, pound, powder, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, rasher, reduce to powder, reduce to rubble, remnant, rend, rive, scatter, scoop, scrap, scrunch, scruple, shard, shatter, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, smash, smash up, smatter, smidgen, smitch, smithereen, smithereens, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, speck, splinter, split, split up, spoonful, spot, squash, squish, stitch, stump, sunder, take apart, tatter, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, total, trifling amount, triturate, trivia, unbuild, undo, unmake, whit, wrack up, wreck |
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