Fragment in English dictionary

  • fragment

    Meanings and definitions of "Fragment"

    • A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
    • (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
    • (intransitive) To break apart.
    • (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
    • noun
      A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
    • noun
      (grammar)
      A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
    • noun
      (computing)
      An incomplete portion of code.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To break apart.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To cause to be broken into pieces.
    • verb
      (transitive, computing)
      To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
    • In IIS with Smooth Streaming installed, the unit of information transmitted from the Web server to clients. The unit of information is an MPEG-4 (MP4) file that contains a short segment of the content (2-seconds if the content was encoded using Expression Encoder).
    • A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
    • one (object)
    • one of the group or party
    • portion or segment of an object
    • grammar: a sentence
    • to break apart
    • to cause to be broken into pieces
    • noun
      an incomplete piece; "fragments of a play"
    • noun
      a broken piece of a brittle artifact
    • noun
      a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock"
    • verb
      break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"

    Synonyms of "Fragment" in English dictionary

    fragmentise, piece, sherd are the top synonyms of "Fragment" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of Fragment

    • fragment ( third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)
    • fragment ( plural  fragments)
    • fragment (plural fragments)
    • fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)
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