fragment

See also: Fragment

English

A fragment [1] of a vessel

A fragment [1] of an ancient writing

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere, present active infinitive of frangō (“I break”). See also fraction.

Pronunciation

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

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.
4. (Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.

   The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.

Related terms

• fragmental

Translations

portion or segment of an object

• Armenian: կտոր (hy) (ktor)
• Bulgarian: къс (bg) m (kǎs), парче (bg) n (parče), отломък (bg) m (otlomǎk), фрагмент (bg) m (fragment)
• Catalan: fragment (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: úlomek (cs) m, fragment (cs) m, zlomek (cs) m, střep (cs) m
• Danish: fragment (da) n
• Dutch: fragment (nl) n
• Finnish: sirpale (fi), osanen, fragmentti (fi)
• French: fragment (fr) m
• Galician: fragmento (gl) m, retrinco m
• German: Fragment (de) n, Bruchstück (de) n
• Greek: θραύσμα (el) n (thráfsma)

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

• Hebrew: פרור (he) m (peiroor)
• Hungarian: töredék (hu), darab (hu)
• Indonesian: fragmen (id)
• Irish: boim m (literary)
• Italian: frammento (it) m
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• Japanese: 断片 (だんぺん, danpen), 破片 (ja) (はへん, hahen) (especially a broken part), フラグメント (furagumento), 欠片 (かけら, kakera)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لەت (let)

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

  Bokmål: fragment n, bruddstykke n

  Nynorsk: fragment n

• Portuguese: fragmento (pt) m
• Romanian: bucată (ro) f, fragment (ro) n, fărâmă (ro) f, crâmpei (ro) n
• Russian: оско́лок (ru) m (oskólok), обло́мок (ru) m (oblómok), кусо́к (ru) m (kusók), фрагме́нт (ru) m (fragmént)
• Sanskrit: खण्ड (sa) n (khaṇḍa)
• Scots: pran
• Scottish Gaelic: bìdeag f, criomag f, mìr m
• Serbo-Croatian: fràgment (sh) m, ùlomak (sh) m, òdlomak (sh) m
• Spanish: fragmento (es)
• Swedish: fragment (sv) n
• Turkish: parça (tr), bölüm (tr), kısım (tr), fragman (tr), kırıntı (tr)
• Yiddish: פֿראַגמענט m (fragment)

grammar: a sentence

• German: Satzfragment (de) n
• Greek: απόσπασμα (el) n (apóspasma)
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• Japanese: 断片 (だんぺん, danpen)
• Russian: фрагме́нт (ru) m (fragmént), отры́вок (ru) m (otrývok) (passage)

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

• fragmentation
• defragmentation
• defragmenter

Translations

to break apart

• Bulgarian: фрагментирам (fragmentiram), раздробявам (bg) (razdrobjavam)
• Catalan: fragmentar (ca)
• Dutch: fragmenteren (nl)
• Finnish: särkyä (fi), rikkoutua (fi), sirpaloitua, pirstoutua (fi), hajota (fi)
• French: fragmenter (fr)
• Galician: fragmentar (gl)
• German: fragmentieren (de)
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• Greek: θρυμματίζω (el) (thrymmatízo)
• Italian: frammentare (it)
• Malay: whakakorakora
• Portuguese: fragmentar (pt)
• Romanian: fragmenta (ro)
• Russian: разва́ливаться (ru) impf (razválivatʹsja), развали́ться (ru) pf (razvalítʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian: fragmentírati (sh)
• Spanish: fragmentar (es)

to cause to be broken into pieces

• Bulgarian: раздробявам се (razdrobjavam se)
• Catalan: fragmentar (ca)
• Dutch: fragmenteren (nl)
• Finnish: särkeä (fi), rikkoa (fi), pirstoa, hajottaa (fi)
• French: fragmenter (fr)
• Galician: fragmentar (gl)
• German: fragmentieren (de)
• Greek: τεμαχίζω (el) (temachízo), κομματιάζω (el) (kommatiázo)
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• Italian: frammentare (it)
• Maori: māhurehure
• Portuguese: fragmentar (pt)
• Romanian: fragmenta (ro)
• Russian: разла́мывать (ru) impf (razlámyvatʹ), разлома́ть (ru) pf (razlomátʹ), фрагменти́ровать (ru) (fragmentírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: fragmentírati (sh)
• Spanish: fragmentar (es)

Further reading

• “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.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [fɾəɡˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [fɾəɡˈment]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fɾaɡˈment]

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. a fragment

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Czech

Etymology

From Latin fragmentum.

Noun

1. fragment (portion or segment of an object)

Related terms

• See frakce

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: frag‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmenten, diminutive fragmentje n)

1. a fragment

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁaɡ.mɑ̃/

• Audio (France, Paris):

  (file)

• Homophone: fragments
• Hyphenation: frag‧ment

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. fragment

Derived terms

• fragmentaire
• fragmenter

Related terms

• fraction

Further reading

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

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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.

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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.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraɡ.mɛnt/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

fragment m inan

1. fragment

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

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Romanian

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Borrowed from French fragment and its source, Latin fragmentum.

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmente)

1. fragment

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

Synonyms

• bucată, frântură

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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

References

• “fragment” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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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

References

• fragment in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)