fragment

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæɡmənt/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (verb) IPA^(key): /fɹæɡˈmɛnt/, /ˈfɹæɡmɛnt/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

fragment (plural fragments)

1. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not

   a fragment of an ancient writing

   I heard a small fragment of the conversation.

   • 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur‎, University of California Press, page 68:

     […] 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.

2. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
3. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
5. (Internet) 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.

   Holonym: anchor link

   The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.

   • 2006, Michael Mahemoff, Ajax Design Patterns, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 523:

     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.

Derived terms

Related terms

• fraction

Translations

Verb

fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)

1. (intransitive) To break apart.
   • 2023 July 31, Charles Hugh Smith, Lessons from the Unraveling of the Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization‎:

     Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.

2. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
3. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

Synonyms

• fragmentize

Antonyms

• defragment

Derived terms

• defragmentation
• defragmenter
• fragmentable
• fragmentation

Translations

Further reading

• “fragment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “fragment”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• fragment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. a fragment

Derived terms

• fragment d'Okazaki

Further reading

• “fragment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fragment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “fragment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fragment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

fragment m inan

1. fragment (portion or segment of an object)

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• fragment in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• fragment in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• fragment in Internetová jazyková příručka

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”). Influence by French fragment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frɑxˈmɛnt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: frag‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmenten, diminutive fragmentje n)

1. a fragment, broken portion
2. a fragment, part of a work (whether due to selection or incompleteness)

Derived terms

• fragmentarisch
• fragmentenhypothese
• fragmenteren

Descendants

• → Indonesian: fragmen

Further reading

• “fragment” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁaɡ.mɑ̃/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Homophone: fragments
• Hyphenation: frag‧ment

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. fragment

Derived terms

• fragment d’Okazaki
• fragmentaire
• fragmenter

Related terms

• fraction

Descendants

• → Romanian: fragment
• → Turkish: fragman

Further reading

• “fragment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Middle English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraɡmɛnt/

Noun

fragment (Late Middle English)

1. a small part or piece; a fragment

Descendants

• English: fragment

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Noun

fragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment or fragmenter, definite plural fragmenta or fragmentene)

1. a fragment

Related terms

• fragmentere

References

• “fragment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Noun

fragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment, definite plural fragmenta)

1. a fragment

Related terms

• fragmentere

References

• “fragment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

fragment

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraɡ.mɛnt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡmɛnt
• Syllabification: frag‧ment

Noun

fragment m inan

1. fragment, excerpt, passage

   Synonym: urywek

Declension

Further reading

• fragment in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fragment in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fragment, Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fraɡˈment/

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmente)

1. fragment

   Synonyms: bucată, frântură

Declension

Further reading

• fragment in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frǎɡment/
• Hyphenation: frag‧ment

Noun

fràgment m (Cyrillic spelling фра̀гмент)

1. fragment

Declension

Further reading

• “fragment” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

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• Audio

  (file)

Noun

fragment n

1. a fragment

Declension

Related terms

• fragmentarisk
• fragmentera
• fragmentering
• fragmentisera
• fragmentisering

Further reading

• fragment in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)