fragment
/ˈfɹæɡmənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.55 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
noun
A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
noun
An incomplete portion of code.
noun
A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.
Example Sentences
- "a fragment of an ancient writing"
- "I heard a small fragment of the conversation."
- "[…]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."
- "The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment."
- "Unique URLs requires you to make like an information architect and do some URL design work. Possibly, you'll be controlling only the fragment identifier rather than the entire URL, but even the fragment identifier has usability implications."
- "Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized."
Etymology
From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“to break”) + -mentum.
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