fragment

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere, present active infinitive of frangō (“I break”). See also fraction.

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæɡmənt/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /fɹæɡˈmɛnt/, /ˈfɹæɡmɛnt/

fragment (plural fragments)

1. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
   • 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 seperate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.

   a fragment of an ancient writing

   I heard a small fragment of the conversation.

2. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
3. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.

• fragmental

fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)

1. (intransitive) To break apart.
2. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
3. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

• fragmentize

• fragmentation

• fragment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fragment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /fɾəɡˈment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /fɾəɡˈmen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fɾaɡˈment/

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. a fragment

From Latin fragmentum.

fragment m

1. fragment (portion or segment of an object)

• See frakce

• fragment in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• fragment in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

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• Hyphenation: frag‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

fragment n (plural fragmenten, diminutive fragmentje n)

1. a fragment

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

• IPA^(key): /fʁaɡ.mɑ̃/

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• Homophone: fragments
• Hyphenation: frag‧ment

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. fragment

• fragmentaire
• fragmenter

• fraction

• “fragment” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum

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

1. a fragment

• fragmentere

• “fragment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum

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

1. a fragment

• fragmentere

• “fragment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraɡ.mɛnt/

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fragment m inan

1. fragment

Borrowed from French fragment and its source, Latin fragmentum.

fragment n (plural fragmente)

1. fragment

• bucată, frântură

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

• IPA^(key): /frǎɡment/
• Hyphenation: frag‧ment

fràgment m (Cyrillic spelling фра̀гмент)

1. fragment

• “fragment” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

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fragment n

1. a fragment

• fragmentarisk
• fragmentera
• fragmentering
• fragmentisera
• fragmentisering

• fragment in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)