fragment

[Frag·ment]

A fragment is a small piece that’s come off a larger whole, and to fragment is to break. If your teacher writes "frag" on your paper, you've got an incomplete sentence.

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A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

Noun
a broken piece of a brittle artifact

Noun
an incomplete piece; "fragments of a play"

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"


v. t.
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.


Fragment

Frag"ment , n. [L. fragmentum, fr. frangere to break: cf. F. fragment. See Break, v. t.] A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
Gather up the fragments that remain.

A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

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Usage Examples

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

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