fragment

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Two and two, therefore, only make four through a false conception Again: fraction does not exist in Nature, where what you call a fragment is a finished whole.

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  1. noun A small part broken off or detached.
  2. noun An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit: overheard fragments of their conversation; extant fragments of an old manuscript.
  3. noun Grammar A sentence fragment.

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  • The second task is to classify that sample, that is, put it in a subcategory (like determining that the blood is O positive, that the bullet that shed the fragment was a .38). —  The Twelfth Card
  • But this is actually an 18th-century fragment from a Greek bedsheet, specifically from the island Skyros. —  style court
  • Only the remarkable fragment about the black pine of Eridhu, "marking the centre of the earth, in the dark forest, into the heart whereof man hath not penetrated," (see p. 287) tantalizingly ends with these suggestive words: "Within it Dumuzi Scholars have found reason for conjecturing that this fragment was the beginning of a mythical narrative recounting Dumuzi's death, which must have been represented as taking place in that dark and sacred forest of Eridhu,--probably through the agency of a wild beast sent against him by a jealous and hostile power, just as the bull created by Anu was sent against Izdubar. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
  • The most remarkable feature in this fragment is a boulder-bed, resting unconformably on the Cambrian strata and including boulders of various shapes and sizes, which are often faceted and striated in a way indicative of glacial action. —  The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
  • The Church of St. Francis Xavier in New York has a fragment which is exposed for veneration on Easter Sunday, as is the custom in European churches possessing a relic. —  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
 

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bit ·  scrap ·  portion ·  mass ·  remain ·  pile ·  particle ·  shape ·  collection ·  chunk ·  specimen ·  structure

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fragment:   fragmented ·  fragments
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Latin fragmentum, from frangere, frag-, to break; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =D.G. Danish Swedish fragment, from French fragment = Provencal fragment = Spanish Portuguese Italian fragmento, from Latin fragmentum, a fragment, remnant (cf. fragmen, a fracture, plural fragmina, fragments), from frangere (√*frag), break: see fracion.
  2. fragment, n.
 

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