fragment
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“to break”) + -mentum.
Base: frangō
Affixes: -mentum
Inflected forms:
form: fragments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fragments
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fragmenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fragmented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fragmented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
pos: noun
examples: a fragment of an ancient writing
I heard a small fragment of the conversation.
[…]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.
gloss: A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
pos: noun
gloss: An incomplete portion of code.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.
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.
gloss: A split piece of an organism that has undergone the asexual reproduction process where the organism splits into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
pos: noun
gloss: To break apart.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.
An investigation found that the rail had fragmented as trains passed over it, and that the likely cause was "rolling contact fatigue" defined as multiple surface-breaking cracks. Repeated high loading had caused fatigue cracks to grow, resulting in what is called gauge corner cracking.
gloss: To cause to be broken into pieces.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Samois includes celebate ^([sic]), 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.
gloss: To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: fragmentize
Antonyms: defragment
Related words: fractal
fraction
fractious
fracture
infract
infraction
refract
refraction
refractive
refractory
refrangible
refringent
Derived words: fission fragment
fraglet
fragmental
fragment antigen binding
fragmentary
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
fragmentable
fragmentation
defragmentation
defragmenter
refragment
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