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fragment

noun
/ˈfɹæɡmənt/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from fragmentum — “a fragment, remnant”
  2. inherited from fragment

Definitions

  1. A part broken off

    A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.

    • a fragment of an ancient writing
    • I heard a small fragment of the conversation.

  2. A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate

    A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.

  3. An incomplete portion of code.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific…

      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.

      • The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.

    2. A split piece of an organism that has undergone the asexual reproduction process where…

      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.

    3. To break apart.

      • Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.

    4. To cause to be broken into pieces.

    5. To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

    6. Of an organism

      Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fragment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fragment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at fragment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA