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IPA transcription: [f'ɹæɡmənts]
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Noun
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a piece broken off or cut off of something else
“a fragment of rock”
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a broken piece of a brittle artifact
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an incomplete piece
“fragments of a play”
Verb
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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.