fragment
English
editEtymology
editFrom Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).
Pronunciation
edit- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈfɹæɡmənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (verb) IPA(key): /fɹæɡˈmɛnt/, /ˈfɹæɡmɛnt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnt
Noun
editfragment (plural fragments)
- A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
- a fragment of an ancient writing
- I heard a small fragment of the conversation.
- 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur[1], 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 separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
- (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
- (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
- (Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the
#
sign.- Holonym: anchor link
- The URL
www.example.com/home#recent
ends with a fragment.
- 2006, Michael Mahemoff, Ajax Design Patterns, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 523:
- Unique URLs requires you to make like an information architect and do some URL design work. Possibly, you'll be controlling only the fragment identifier rather than the entire URL, but even the fragment identifier has usability implications.
Derived terms
edit- fission fragment
- fragmentable
- fragmental
- fragment antigen binding
- fragmentary
- fragment crystallizable region
- fragmentectomy
- fragmentism
- fragmentist
- fragmentography
- fragment shader
- hyperfragment
- interfragment
- Klenow fragment
- macrofragment
- megafragment
- microfragment
- multifragment
- nanofragment
- Okazaki fragment
- peptide fragment
- photofragment
- restriction fragment
- sentence fragment
- soul fragment
- stuffer fragment
- stutter fragment
- subfragment
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Verb
editfragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)
- (intransitive) To break apart.
- 2023 July 31, Charles Hugh Smith, Lessons from the Unraveling of the Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization[2]:
- Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.
- (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
- 1982 December 18, Pat Califa, “Open Policy”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 5:
- Samois includes celebate [sic], heterosexual and bisexual women as well as lesbians, and I feel very strongly that this is the wisest choice. Our community is so fragile that we can't afford to fragment it by excommunicating non-lesbian women.
- (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
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Further reading
edit- “fragment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “fragment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- fragment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfragment m (plural fragments)
- a fragment
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “fragment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fragment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “fragment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fragment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfragment m inan
- fragment (portion or segment of an object)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | fragment | fragmenty |
genitive | fragmentu | fragmentů |
dative | fragmentu | fragmentům |
accusative | fragment | fragmenty |
vocative | fragmente | fragmenty |
locative | fragmentu | fragmentech |
instrumental | fragmentem | fragmenty |
Related terms
editFurther reading
editDutch
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”). Influence by French fragment.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfragment n (plural fragmenten, diminutive fragmentje n)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Indonesian: fragmen
Further reading
edit- “fragment” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
French
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfragment m (plural fragments)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “fragment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfragment[1] (Late Middle English)
Descendants
edit- English: fragment
References
edit- ^ “fragment, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin fragmentum.
Noun
editfragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment or fragmenter, definite plural fragmenta or fragmentene)
- a fragment
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “fragment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin fragmentum.
Noun
editfragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment, definite plural fragmenta)
- a fragment
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “fragment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfragment m inan
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | fragment | fragmenty |
genitive | fragmentu | fragmentów |
dative | fragmentowi | fragmentom |
accusative | fragment | fragmenty |
instrumental | fragmentem | fragmentami |
locative | fragmencie | fragmentach |
vocative | fragmencie | fragmenty |
Further reading
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French fragment, Latin fragmentum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfragment n (plural fragmente)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) fragment | fragmentul | (niște) fragmente | fragmentele |
genitive/dative | (unui) fragment | fragmentului | (unor) fragmente | fragmentelor |
vocative | fragmentule | fragmentelor |
Further reading
edit- fragment in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin fragmentum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfràgment m (Cyrillic spelling фра̀гмент)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | fràgment | fragmenti |
genitive | fragmenta | fràgmenātā |
dative | fragmentu | fragmentima |
accusative | fragment | fragmente |
vocative | fragmente | fragmenti |
locative | fragmentu | fragmentima |
instrumental | fragmentom | fragmentima |
Further reading
edit- “fragment” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin fragmentum.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editfragment n
- a fragment
Declension
editDeclension of fragment | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | fragment | fragmentet | fragment | fragmenten |
Genitive | fragments | fragmentets | fragments | fragmentens |
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰreg-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:English/ɛnt
- Rhymes:English/ɛnt/2 syllables
- English lemmas
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- en:Internet
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- English heteronyms
- English terms suffixed with -ment
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Catalan terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰreg-
- Catalan terms borrowed from Latin
- Catalan learned borrowings from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- Czech terms borrowed from Latin
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- Czech masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech hard masculine inanimate nouns
- Dutch terms borrowed from Latin
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛnt
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- Dutch lemmas
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- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch neuter nouns
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰreg-
- French terms borrowed from Latin
- French learned borrowings from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French terms with homophones
- French lemmas
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- French countable nouns
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- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Middle English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰreg-
- Middle English terms borrowed from Latin
- Middle English learned borrowings from Latin
- Middle English terms derived from Latin
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
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- Late Middle English
- Middle English terms suffixed with -ment
- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from Latin
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- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
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- Norwegian Bokmål neuter nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Latin
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- Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns
- Polish terms borrowed from Latin
- Polish learned borrowings from Latin
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- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/aɡmɛnt
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- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- Romanian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Romanian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰreg-
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms borrowed from Latin
- Romanian learned borrowings from Latin
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- Romanian lemmas
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- Romanian countable nouns
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- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from Latin
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- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Swedish terms borrowed from Latin
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- Swedish neuter nouns