fragmentnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfræɡ.mənt/us/ˈfræɡ.mənt/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Literary scholars are piecing together her last unpublished novel from fragments of a recently discovered manuscript.
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Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- chip
- clipping
- crumb
- dollop
- droplet
- flake
- germ
- jot
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinpoint
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
- slip
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fragmentverb [ I or T ]
uk/fræɡˈment/us/fræɡˈment/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.
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Tearing and breaking into pieces
- apart
- asunder
- bobble
- break (sth) off
- breakage
- catch
- fall apart
- flake
- fragmented
- fray
- frayed
- in ribbons idiom
- knacker
- pull
- pull sth apart
- rent
- rip
- shear
- split
- tear sth up
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fragmentation
noun [ U ] uk/ˌfræɡ.menˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌfræɡ.menˈteɪ.ʃən/
It was partly the fragmentation of the opposition which helped to get the Republicans re-elected.