| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | frag·ment |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  fr g m nt |
| NOUN: | 1. A small part broken off or detached. 2. An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit: overheard fragments of their conversation; extant fragments of an old manuscript. 3. Grammar A sentence fragment. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: frag·ment·ed, frag·ment·ing, frag·ments
(-m nt ) | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To break or separate (something) into fragments. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To become broken into fragments: After the election, the coalition fragmented. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Latin fragmentum, from frangere, frag-, to break. See bhreg- in Appendix I.
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