fragment

See also: Fragment

English

Fragments of a vessel

A mirror frame fragment

Etymology

From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæɡmənt/

• Audio (RP)

  (file)

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

• Audio (RP)

  (file)

• Audio (RP)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

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^[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.

   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.
5. (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

• fragment antigen binding
• fragment crystallizable region
• fragment shader
• fragmental
• fragmentary
• fragmentectomy
• fragmentism
• fragmentography
• 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

 

Related terms

• fraction

Translations

portion or segment of an object

• Arabic: قِطْعَة‎ f (qiṭʕa), شَقَفَة‎ f (šaqafa), كَسْرَة‎ f (kasra)

  Hijazi Arabic: قِطْعة‎ f (giṭʿa), شَقْفة‎ f (šagfa), كَسْرة‎ f (kasra)

• Armenian: կտոր (ktor)
• Belarusian: аске́пак m (askjépak), аскалёпак m (askaljópak), аско́лак m (askólak), фрагме́нт m (frahmjént), фрагмэ́нт m (frahmént), абло́мак m (ablómak), адло́мак m (adlómak), зло́мак m (zlómak), кусо́к m (kusók)
• Bulgarian: къс m (kǎs), парче́ n (parčé), отло́мък m (otlómǎk), фрагме́нт m (fragmént)
• Catalan: fragment m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碎片 (zh) (suìpiàn), 碎屑 (zh) (suìxiè), 斷片／断片 (zh) (duànpiàn), 碴兒／碴儿 (zh) (chár)

• Czech: úlomek m, fragment m, zlomek m, střep m
• Danish: fragment n
• Dutch: fragment n
• Esperanto: fragmento
• Finnish: sirpale, osanen, fragmentti
• French: fragment m
• Galician: fragmento m, retrinco m
• German: Fragment n, Bruchstück n
• Greek: θραύσμα n (thráfsma)

  Ancient: θραῦμα n (thraûma), κλάσμα n (klásma)

• Hebrew: פָּרוּר‎ m (parur), רְסִיס‎ m (resís)
• Hungarian: töredék, darab
• Indonesian: fragmen
• Irish: boim m (literary)
• Italian: frammento m
• Japanese: 断片 (だんぺん, danpen), 破片 (はへん, hahen) (especially a broken part), フラグメント (furagumento), 欠片 (かけら, kakera)
• Kazakh: фрагмент (fragment), үзік (üzık), үзiндi (üzindi)
• Korean: 조각 (jogak), 파편(破片) (papyeon)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لەت‎ (ku) (let)

• Latin: fragmen n, fragmentum n
• Macedonian: одломка f (odlomka)
• Malay: serpihan, fragmen
• Maori: mōrohe, mōtete, kuru, rutunga, kongakonga, kora, korakora, tūāporo, porohanga, rutunga, tīmokamoka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fragment n, bruddstykke n

  Nynorsk: fragment n

• Old English: ġebrot n
• Old Norse: brot n
• Persian: قطعه‎ (qet'e), پارچه‎ (pârče)
• Polish: odłamek m, ułamek m, fragment m
• Portuguese: fragmento m
• Romanian: bucată f, fragment n, fărâmă f, crâmpei n
• Russian: оско́лок m (oskólok), обло́мок m (oblómok), кусо́к m (kusók), фрагме́нт m (fragmént)
• Sanskrit: खण्ड n (khaṇḍa)
• Scots: pran
• Scottish Gaelic: bìdeag f, criomag f, mìr m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фра̀гмент m, у̀ломак m, о̀дломак m, ко̀ма̄д m

  Roman: fràgment (sh) m, ùlomak (sh) m, òdlomak (sh) m, kòmād (sh) m

• Slovak: úlomok m, zlomok m, kúsok m, fragment m
• Slovene: drobec m
• Spanish: fragmento
• Swedish: fragment n
• Tajik: порча (porča)
• Turkish: parça, bölüm, kısım, kırıntı
• Ukrainian: шмат m (šmat), шмато́к m (šmatók), кусо́к m (kusók), ку́сень m (kúsenʹ), фрагме́нт m (frahmént), ула́мок m (ulámok), кусо́к m (kusók)
• Uyghur: پارچە‎ (parche)
• Uzbek: parcha
• Yiddish: פֿראַגמענט‎ m (fragment)

grammar: a sentence

• German: Satzfragment n
• Greek: απόσπασμα n (apóspasma)
• Japanese: 断片 (だんぺん, danpen)
• Russian: фрагме́нт m (fragmént), отры́вок m (otrývok) (passage)
• Ukrainian: фрагме́нт m (frahmént), ури́вок m (urývok)

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• fragmentize

Antonyms

• defragment

Derived terms

• defragmentation
• defragmenter
• fragmentable
• fragmentation

Translations

to break apart

• Bulgarian: фрагментирам (fragmentiram), раздробявам (razdrobjavam)
• Catalan: fragmentar
• Dutch: fragmenteren
• Finnish: särkyä, rikkoutua, sirpaloitua, pirstoutua, hajota
• French: fragmenter
• Galician: fragmentar
• German: fragmentieren
• Greek: θρυμματίζω (thrymmatízo)
• Italian: frammentare
• Malay: whakakorakora
• Portuguese: fragmentar
• Romanian: fragmenta
• Russian: разва́ливаться impf (razválivatʹsja), развали́ться pf (razvalítʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian: fragmentírati (sh)
• Spanish: fragmentar
• Ukrainian: розва́люватися impf (rozváljuvatysja), розвали́тися pf (rozvalýtysja)

to cause to be broken into pieces

• Bulgarian: раздробявам се (razdrobjavam se)
• Catalan: fragmentar
• Dutch: fragmenteren
• Finnish: särkeä, rikkoa, pirstoa, hajottaa
• French: fragmenter
• Galician: fragmentar
• German: fragmentieren
• Greek: τεμαχίζω (temachízo), κομματιάζω (kommatiázo)
• Italian: frammentare
• Maori: māhurehure
• Portuguese: fragmentar
• Romanian: fragmenta
• Russian: разла́мывать impf (razlámyvatʹ), разлома́ть pf (razlomátʹ), фрагменти́ровать (fragmentírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: fragmentírati (sh)
• Spanish: fragmentar
• Ukrainian: фрагментува́ти (frahmentuváty), розлама́ти pf (rozlamáty)

Further reading

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

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. a fragment

Derived terms

• fragment d'Okazaki

Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

Noun

fragment m

1. fragment (portion or segment of an object)

Related terms

• frakce

 

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”). Influence by French fragment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frɑxˈmɛnt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: frag‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmenten, diminutive fragmentje n)

1. a fragment, broken portion
2. a fragment, part of a work (whether due to selection or incompleteness)

Derived terms

• fragmentarisch
• fragmentenhypothese
• fragmenteren

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁaɡ.mɑ̃/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Homophone: fragments
• Hyphenation: frag‧ment

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. fragment

Derived terms

• fragment d'Okazaki
• fragmentaire
• fragmenter

Related terms

• fraction

Descendants

• → Romanian: fragment
• → Turkish: fragman

Further reading

• “fragment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraɡmɛnt/

Noun

fragment (Late Middle English)

1. a small part or piece; a fragment

Descendants

• English: fragment

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Noun

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

1. a fragment

Related terms

• fragmentere

References

• “fragment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Noun

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

1. a fragment

Related terms

• fragmentere

References

• “fragment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraɡ.mɛnt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡmɛnt
• Syllabification: frag‧ment

Noun

fragment m inan

1. fragment, excerpt, passage

   Synonym: urywek

Declension

Declension of fragment

	singular	plural
nominative	fragment	fragmenty
genitive	fragmentu	fragmentów
dative	fragmentowi	fragmentom
accusative	fragment	fragmenty
instrumental	fragmentem	fragmentami
locative	fragmencie	fragmentach
vocative	fragmencie	fragmenty

Further reading

• fragment in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fragment in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fragment, Latin fragmentum.

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmente)

1. fragment

   Synonyms: bucată, frântură

Declension

Declension of fragment

	singular		plural
	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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fràgment m (Cyrillic spelling фра̀гмент)

1. fragment

Declension

Declension of fragment

	singular	plural
nominative	fràgment	fragmenti
genitive	fragmenta	fràgmenātā
dative	fragmentu	fragmentima
accusative	fragment	fragmente
vocative	fragmente	fragmenti
locative	fragmentu	fragmentima
instrumental	fragmentom	fragmentima

Further reading

• “fragment” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

fragment n

1. a fragment

Declension

Declension of fragment
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fragment	fragmentet	fragment	fragmenten
Genitive	fragments	fragmentets	fragments	fragmentens

Related terms

• fragmentarisk
• fragmentera
• fragmentering
• fragmentisera
• fragmentisering

Further reading

• fragment in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)