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IPA transcription: [f'ɹæɡmənts]

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Noun

  • a piece broken off or cut off of something else

    “a fragment of rock”

  • a broken piece of a brittle artifact

  • an incomplete piece

    “fragments of a play”

Verb

  • break or cause to break into pieces

    “The plate fragmented”

Usage examples

  • Mead's book was a collection of fragments of an almost forgotten religion: Hermetism.
  • Some of the fragments are extensive enough to allow tentative reconstructions to be proposed.
  • Both fossils are of Eocene age, and consist of leaflet fragments.
  • His work is presented under the form of scattered fragments.
  • Cellulose and hemicellulose is degraded to aliphatic carboxylic acid soaps and hemicellulose fragments.
  • "Qantassaurus" is only known from jaw fragments.
  • This suggests that they originated as fragments of Vesta's crust.
  • In organic chemistry, hydrolysis reactions often give two fragments from an initial substrate.
  • It is propagated both by seed and stem fragments.
  • Fragments of the meteorite were also driven into the surrounding trees.