Definitions for fragment

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fragment frag·ment

Spelling: [noun frag-muh nt; verb

IPA: /noun ˈfræg mənt; verb ˈfræg mənt, -mɛnt, frægˈmɛnt/

Fragment is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 328 anagrams from letters in fragment (aefgmnrt).

Definitions for fragment

noun

1. a part broken off or detached:
2. an isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part:
3. an odd piece, bit, or scrap.

verb (used with object)

1. to break (something) into pieces or fragments; cause to disintegrate:
2. to divide into fragments; disunify.
3. Computers. to split a file into smaller parts and store in non-contiguous sectors on a disk, resulting in fragmentation of both the file and available free space on the disk. Compare fragmentation (def 4).

verb (used without object)

1. to collapse or break into fragments; disintegrate:

Origin of fragment

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin fragmentum a broken piece, remnant, equivalent to frag- (stem of frangere to break) + -mentum

Examples for fragment

It really is startling that not one fragment of an airplane that weighed 250 tons has yet turned up.

Day 50 of the search for Flight MH370 has come and gone without one fragment of the Boeing 777 being found.

The fragment is written in Coptic, not Greek, and is not actually from the Bible, as the title would indicate.

In a subsequent line the fragment refers to a “Mary” and says that she “is worthy.”

Epos, p. 65, places the fragment in the Finn episode, between ll.

It was as if men had been able to preserve a fragment of a sunset.

The stone-breaker, who had not broken a fragment since we began to converse, then did as follows.

I beg your pardon, my dear "Clarinda," for the fragment scrawl I sent you yesterday.

A fragment penetrated her shoulder, missing a major artery by an inch.

"I'm sorry you think——" he began, but did not complete the fragment.