Fragment

Noun

 * 1) A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
 * 2)  A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.

Verb

 * 1)  To break apart.
 * 2)  To cause to be broken into pieces.

Adjectives for Fragment
unrelated; expurgated; enormous; intelligible; welcome; warlike; sparkling; numberless (pi); cumbrous; colossal; tattered; insignificant; scattered (pi); hissing; weary; whirling; clattering; chaotic; shattered; quarried; incoherent; isolated; misty; artless; halting; detached; ill-smelling; connected; cometary; heterogeneous; massive; indubitable; massy; rough; curious; countless (pi); weary; fancy; important; disjointed; grand; beauteous; sculptured; pitiful; brilliant; restless; exquisite.

Verbs for Fragment
break into—s; cast into—s; cherish—s; conceal—s; discard—s; excise—s; extract—s; gather up—s; hack into—s; preserve—s; reduce to—s; retain—s; rip into—s; scatter—s; splinter into—s; strew—s; tear into—s; —embarrasses; — fill; —projects; — scatter.

Synonyms for Fragment
trimming, bit, scrap, piece, remnant, shard, fraction, chip, remainder, trace, residue.

Antonyms for Fragment
completeness, unity, entirety, sum, aggregate, total, all, whole.

Related terms

 * fragmental

Derived terms

 * fragmentation

Thesaurus
abrade, ace, ana, analects, anthology, atom, atomize, beat, bit, bray, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, brecciate, burst, butt, chip, chunk, cleave, clip, clipping, clippings, collectanea, collection, collop, come apart, comminute, contriturate, crash, crumb, crumble, crunch, crush, cut, cut to pieces, cutting, cuttings, dab, debris, demolish, diffuse, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, disperse, disrupt, dole, dollop, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, end, excerpta, excerpts, explode, extracts, farthing, fission, fleck, florilegium, flour, flowers, flyspeck, fragments, gleanings, go to pieces, gob, gobbet, grain, granulate, granule, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, groat, hair, handful, hunk, iota, jot, levigate, little, little bit, lota, lump, make mincemeat of, mash, mill, mince, minim, minimum, minutiae, miscellanea, miscellany, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, mote, nutshell, ounce, paring, part, particle, pash, pebble, pestle, pick to pieces, piece, pinch, pittance, point, portion, pound, powder, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, rasher, reduce to powder, reduce to rubble, remnant, rend, rive, scatter, scoop, scrap, scrunch, scruple, shard, shatter, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, smash, smash up, smatter, smidgen, smitch, smithereen, smithereens, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, speck, splinter, split, split up, spoonful, spot, squash, squish, stitch, stump, sunder, take apart, tatter, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, total, trifling amount, triturate, trivia, unbuild, undo, unmake, whit, wrack up, wreck

Etymology
From, from fragmentum:, from  frangere:, present active infinitive of frango:. See also fraction.

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Croatian:, ulomak,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: פרור
 * Hungarian: töredék,


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ;
 * Romanian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: fragment
 * Turkish:, ,  kısım,  ,


 * German: Satzfragment


 * Japanese:

Verb

 * Croatian: fragmentirati
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, sirpaloitua, hajota palasiksi
 * French: fragmenter


 * German:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:


 * Croatian: fragmentirati
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: fragmenter


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:

Etymology
fragmentum: < frangere:.

Noun

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Etymology
fragmentum: < frangere:.

Derived terms

 * fragmenter

Noun

 * 1) fragment

Noun

 * 1) fragment