fragment

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

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæɡmənt/

• Audio (RP)

  (file)

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

• Audio (RP)

  (file)

• Audio (RP)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛnt

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, 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.
4. (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.

• fraction

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.

• fragmentize

• defragment

• defragmentation
• defragmenter
• fragmentable
• fragmentation

• 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

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

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

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. a fragment

• fragment d'Okazaki

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

fragment m

1. fragment (portion or segment of an object)

• frakce

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

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

• IPA^(key): /frɑxˈmɛnt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: frag‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

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)

• fragmentarisch
• fragmentenhypothese
• fragmenteren

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

• IPA^(key): /fʁaɡ.mɑ̃/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Homophone: fragments
• Hyphenation: frag‧ment

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. fragment

• fragment d'Okazaki
• fragmentaire
• fragmenter

• fraction

• → Romanian: fragment
• → Turkish: fragman

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

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraɡmɛnt/

fragment[1] (Late Middle English)

1. a small part or piece; a fragment

• English: fragment

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

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

1. a fragment

• fragmentere

• “fragment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

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

1. a fragment

• fragmentere

• “fragment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraɡ.mɛnt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡmɛnt
• Syllabification: frag‧ment

fragment m inan

1. fragment, excerpt, passage

   Synonym: urywek

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

Borrowed from French fragment, Latin fragmentum.

fragment n (plural fragmente)

1. fragment

   Synonyms: bucată, frântură

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

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

fràgment m (Cyrillic spelling фра̀гмент)

1. fragment

• “fragment” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

• Audio

  (file)

fragment n

1. a fragment

• fragmentarisk
• fragmentera
• fragmentering
• fragmentisera
• fragmentisering

• fragment in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)