fragment
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
Example
“a fragment of an ancient writing”
Other meanings
A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
An incomplete portion of code.
Kinds of fragment
- bit
- coal
- shaving
- restriction fragment
- scraping
- spark
Related words
- fission fragment
- fraglet
- fragmentable
- fragmental
- fragment antigen binding
- fragmentary
- fragmentation
- fragment crystallizable region
- fragmentectomy
- fragmentism
- fragmentist
- fragmentization
Word history
From Latin "fragmentum" (a fragment, remnant).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “fragment” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.