Fragment
noun
A small part that is broken off or separated from something.
I found a fragment of glass in my soup.
Often appears as...
- fragment of time
- fragment of information
verb
To break or to cause something to break into small pieces or parts.
His theory was fragmented by other scientists' criticism.
Often appears as...
- fragment into pieces
- fragment the data
noun
A small part of a computer memory or disk which can be used to store information.
The file was broken into fragments to save disk space.
Often appears as...
- data fragment
- fragment of code
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Technical
noun
A small piece of a sentence or phrase which does not make sense by itself.
The sentence 'While we waited.' by itself is a fragment.
Often appears as...
- sentence fragment
- fragment of dialogue
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Academic
noun
A small part that is broken off or separated from something.
I found a fragment of glass in my soup.
Often appears as...
- fragment of time
- fragment of information
verb
To break or to cause something to break into small pieces or parts.
His theory was fragmented by other scientists' criticism.
Often appears as...
- fragment into pieces
- fragment the data
noun
A small part of a computer memory or disk which can be used to store information.
The file was broken into fragments to save disk space.
Often appears as...
- data fragment
- fragment of code
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small piece of a sentence or phrase which does not make sense by itself.
The sentence 'While we waited.' by itself is a fragment.
Often appears as...
- sentence fragment
- fragment of dialogue
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Context Importance
Use 'fragment' to describe parts with no specific shape, often resulting from destruction.
After the vase fell, fragments scattered across the floor.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Imagery
'Fragment' often implies something incomplete or damaged, evoking visual imagery of brokenness.
The ancient ruins lay in fragments, telling a story of the past.
Pro Tip 1/2Context Importance
Use 'fragment' to describe parts with no specific shape, often resulting from destruction.
After the vase fell, fragments scattered across the floor.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Imagery
'Fragment' often implies something incomplete or damaged, evoking visual imagery of brokenness.
The ancient ruins lay in fragments, telling a story of the past.
Pro Tip 1/2Context Importance
Use 'fragment' to describe parts with no specific shape, often resulting from destruction.
After the vase fell, fragments scattered across the floor.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Imagery
'Fragment' often implies something incomplete or damaged, evoking visual imagery of brokenness.
The ancient ruins lay in fragments, telling a story of the past.
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What is déjà vu? What is...
and we'll use that tablecloth to examine it. As you scan its squares, a distant memory swims up from deep within your brain. According to the theory, this is because memories are stored in the form of holograms, and in holograms, you only need one fragment to see the whole picture. Your brain has identified the tablecloth with one from the past,
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How fast can a vaccine...
that must be cultivated in non-human tissue over long periods of time. Inactivated vaccines take a much faster approach, directly applying heat, acid, or radiation to weaken the pathogen. Sub-unit vaccines, that inject harmless fragments of viral proteins, can also be created quickly.
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Harmless Lunatic and the...
but of course most eggs are broken by the cheek as it hatches and only the rare adil ones remain whole and even most of those must have been broken during the course of time I just wanted to find a really large piece or perhaps enough of these smaller fragments to fit
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The race to sequence the...
without knowing the actual sequence. Using the overlapping bits as a guide, the researchers marked each fragment's place in the genome to create a contiguous map, a process that took about six years. The cloned fragments were sequenced in labs around the world
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Great Barrier Reef PIPE...
life Carl's get the credit for most of the reef structure but much of the construction is done by fast-growing encrusting red algae they act like pink glue cementing fragments of shale sand and coral with sheets of calcium carbonate
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How your muscular system...
Others may be less so, like the buccinator, a muscle that attaches your cheek to your teeth, or the body's tiniest skeletal muscle, a one-millimeter-long tissue fragment called the stapedius that's nestled deep inside the ear.
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What coronavirus means...
So I'm a globalist. Meaning, I have a dream and a wish that the best of the best can operate together and work together for that common good and so on. But it's dying, because we're in an interconnected, fragmented world.
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Best Of Attenborough And...
so you have to link them up exactly and how you're doing it well one thing that we try to do is actually re-establish the rainforest in between these fragments by planting trees that we actually raise in this nursery here
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Smart(er) technology PIPE...
becoming connected monitoring traffic parking energy use and more but what bothers me about all of this is that this smart world is largely fragmented right now and very incomprehensible by
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Sir David Attenborough...
life in the forest depends on countless close relationships but they are increasingly under threat as forests become more fragmented
Video examples
What is déjà vu? What is...
and we'll use that tablecloth to examine it. As you scan its squares, a distant memory swims up from deep within your brain. According to the theory, this is because memories are stored in the form of holograms, and in holograms, you only need one fragment to see the whole picture. Your brain has identified the tablecloth with one from the past,
Video examples
How fast can a vaccine...
that must be cultivated in non-human tissue over long periods of time. Inactivated vaccines take a much faster approach, directly applying heat, acid, or radiation to weaken the pathogen. Sub-unit vaccines, that inject harmless fragments of viral proteins, can also be created quickly.
Video examples
Harmless Lunatic and the...
but of course most eggs are broken by the cheek as it hatches and only the rare adil ones remain whole and even most of those must have been broken during the course of time I just wanted to find a really large piece or perhaps enough of these smaller fragments to fit
Video examples
The race to sequence the...
without knowing the actual sequence. Using the overlapping bits as a guide, the researchers marked each fragment's place in the genome to create a contiguous map, a process that took about six years. The cloned fragments were sequenced in labs around the world
Video examples
Great Barrier Reef PIPE...
life Carl's get the credit for most of the reef structure but much of the construction is done by fast-growing encrusting red algae they act like pink glue cementing fragments of shale sand and coral with sheets of calcium carbonate
Video examples
How your muscular system...
Others may be less so, like the buccinator, a muscle that attaches your cheek to your teeth, or the body's tiniest skeletal muscle, a one-millimeter-long tissue fragment called the stapedius that's nestled deep inside the ear.
Video examples
What coronavirus means...
So I'm a globalist. Meaning, I have a dream and a wish that the best of the best can operate together and work together for that common good and so on. But it's dying, because we're in an interconnected, fragmented world.
Video examples
Best Of Attenborough And...
so you have to link them up exactly and how you're doing it well one thing that we try to do is actually re-establish the rainforest in between these fragments by planting trees that we actually raise in this nursery here
Video examples
Smart(er) technology PIPE...
becoming connected monitoring traffic parking energy use and more but what bothers me about all of this is that this smart world is largely fragmented right now and very incomprehensible by
Video examples
Sir David Attenborough...
life in the forest depends on countless close relationships but they are increasingly under threat as forests become more fragmented
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Michael Spence
American Economist
A split between the U.S. and its traditional allies, if it becomes a permanent feature of the new global order, would lead to deeper fragmentation among the world's market-oriented democracies. That will surely shift the long-term balance of power in China's favor, as it moves steadily toward becoming the world's largest economy.
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Fernand Leger
French Artist
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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Josiah Royce
American Philosopher
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.
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Laurence Sterne
Irish Novelist
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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Jasper Johns
American Artist
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
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Mary Berry
British Chef
Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.
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Alessandro Michele
Italian Designer
The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.
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Takashi Miike
Japanese Director
There are fragments of me in all my characters.
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Junot Diaz
American Writer
I'm a product of a fragmented world.
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Michael Spence
American Economist
A split between the U.S. and its traditional allies, if it becomes a permanent feature of the new global order, would lead to deeper fragmentation among the world's market-oriented democracies. That will surely shift the long-term balance of power in China's favor, as it moves steadily toward becoming the world's largest economy.
Quote examples
Fernand Leger
French Artist
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
Quote examples
Josiah Royce
American Philosopher
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.
Quote examples
Laurence Sterne
Irish Novelist
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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Jasper Johns
American Artist
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
Quote examples
Mary Berry
British Chef
Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.
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Alessandro Michele
Italian Designer
The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.
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Takashi Miike
Japanese Director
There are fragments of me in all my characters.
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Junot Diaz
American Writer
I'm a product of a fragmented world.
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