# fragment
## English
### Etymology

From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“I break”) +‎ -mentum.

### Pronunciation

* (noun) IPA: /ˈfɹæɡmənt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (verb) IPA: /fɹæɡˈmɛnt/, /ˈfɹæɡmɛnt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

fragment (plural fragments)
* A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
    Synonyms: chip, lump; see also Thesaurus:piece
    a fragment of an ancient writing
    I heard a small fragment of the conversation.
** 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur‎, University of California Press, page 68:[…] and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
* (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
* (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.
    Holonym: anchor link
    The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.
** 2006, Michael Mahemoff, Ajax Design Patterns, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 523:Unique URLs requires you to make like an information architect and do some URL design work. Possibly, you'll be controlling only the fragment identifier rather than the entire URL, but even the fragment identifier has usability implications.
* (biology) A split piece of an organism that has undergone the asexual reproduction process where the organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.

#### Derived terms

* fission fragment
* fraglet
* fragmentable
* fragmental
* fragment antigen binding
* fragmentary
* fragmentation
* fragment crystallizable region
* fragmentectomy
* fragmentism
* fragmentist
* fragmentization
* fragmentography
* fragment shader
* hyperfragment
* interfragment
* Klenow fragment
* macrofragment
* megafragment
* microfragment
* multifragment
* nanofragment
* Okazaki fragment
* peptide fragment
* photofragment
* restriction fragment
* sentence fragment
* soul fragment
* stuffer fragment
* stutter fragment
* subfragment

#### Related terms

* fractal
* fraction
* fractious
* fracture
* infract
* infraction
* refract
* refraction
* refractive
* refractory
* refrangible
* refringent

#### Translations
### Verb

fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)
* (intransitive) To break apart.
** 2023 July 31, Charles Hugh Smith, Lessons from the Unraveling of the Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization‎:Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.
* (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
** 1982 December 18, Pat Califa, “Open Policy”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 5:Samois includes celebate, heterosexual and bisexual women as well as lesbians, and I feel very strongly that this is the wisest choice. Our community is so fragile that we can't afford to fragment it by excommunicating non-lesbian women.
* (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
* (intransitive, biology) Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.

#### Synonyms

* fragmentize

#### Antonyms

* defragment

#### Derived terms

* defragmentation
* defragmenter
* fragmentable
* fragmentation
* refragment

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “fragment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fragment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* fragment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [fɾəɡˈmen]
* IPA: (Balearic) [fɾəɡˈment]
* IPA: (Valencia) [fɾaɡˈment]

### Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)
* a fragment

#### Derived terms

* fragmentari
* fragment d'Okazaki

### Further reading

* “fragment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “fragment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “fragment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “fragment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Czech
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfraɡmɛnt]

### Noun

fragment m inan
* fragment (portion or segment of an object)

#### Related terms

* frakce

### Further reading

* “fragment”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “fragment”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “fragment”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Dutch
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”). Influence by French fragment.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /frɑxˈmɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: frag‧ment
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

fragment n (plural fragmenten, diminutive fragmentje n)
* a fragment, broken portion
* a fragment, part of a work (whether due to selection or incompleteness)

#### Derived terms

* fragmentarisch
* fragmentenhypothese
* fragmenteren

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: fragmen

### Further reading

* “fragment” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fʁaɡ.mɑ̃/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Homophone: fragments
* Hyphenation: frag‧ment

### Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)
* fragment

#### Derived terms

* fragment d’Okazaki
* fragmentaire
* fragmenter

#### Related terms

* fraction

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: fragment
* → Turkish: fragman

### Further reading

* “fragment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfraɡmɛnt/

### Noun

fragment (Late Middle English)
* a small part or piece; a fragment

#### Descendants

* English: fragment

### References

* ↑ “fragment, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

### Noun

fragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment or fragmenter, definite plural fragmenta or fragmentene)
* a fragment

#### Related terms

* fragmentere

### References

* “fragment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

### Noun

fragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment, definite plural fragmenta)
* a fragment

#### Related terms

* fragmentere

### References

* “fragment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfraɡ.mɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɡmɛnt
* Syllabification: frag‧ment

### Noun

fragment m inan
* fragment, excerpt, passage
    Synonym: urywek

#### Declension
### Further reading

* fragment in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* fragment in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French fragment, Latin fragmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fraɡˈment/

### Noun

fragment n (plural fragmente)
* fragment
    Synonyms: bucată, frântură

#### Declension
### Further reading

* fragment in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /frǎɡment/
* Hyphenation: frag‧ment

### Noun

fràgment m (Cyrillic spelling фра̀гмент)
* fragment

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “fragment”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovak
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin fragmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfraɡment]
* Rhymes: -aɡment
* Hyphenation: frag‧ment

### Noun

fragment m inan (relational adjective fragmentový or fragmentárny)
* fragment (archaeologically or historically valuable fragmentary part of a larger whole)
    Synonyms: úlomok, zlomok
* fragment (partially preserved or unfinished work of art)
* fragment (part of a larger whole)
* (biology, genetics) fragment (part of a broken chromosome)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “fragment”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

### Pronunciation

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* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fragment n
* a fragment

#### Related terms

* fragmentarisk
* fragmentera
* fragmentering
* fragmentisera
* fragmentisering

### Further reading

* fragment in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)