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fragment Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 a small piece or a part, especially when broken from something whole:
- The road was covered with fragments of glass from the shattered window.
- Literary scholars are piecing together her last unpublished novel from fragments of a recently discovered manuscript.
1 to break something into small parts or to be broken up in this way:
- The satellite will fragment and burn up as it falls through the earth's atmosphere.
- His day was fragmented by meetings and phone calls.
2 a small piece or part, esp. one that is broken off of something:
- a bone fragment
- a fragment of Indian pottery
- She read a fragment of the story.

Probes nick-translated to yield denatured fragments primarily ranging in size from 500 bases to 100 bases yielded strongest and cleanest signals.
Just as post-structuralism fragmented the subject, ecological theory objectified biological contexts as stable systems.
Two are made on flakes, two on pieces of tabular quartzite and the remainder on irregular fragments or broken flakes.
The majority consist of flakes or broken flakes but there are also some thin fragments of tabular quartzite.
In common with two of the pointed fragments of elephant bones described above, this specimen bears many longitudinal cracks.
If too small a unit is chosen the data will be hopelessly fragmented; a division into departments, for example, would be impossible to interpret.
Elsewhere, however, the dominant impression is of a piecemeal, even fragmented network, in which many roads had been started but few entirely finished.
Every group of human beings has a set of agreed emotive fragments.