From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fragment \Frag"ment\, noun [L. fragmentum, fr. frangere to break: cf. F. fragment. See {Break}, verb (used with an object)] A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
Gather up the fragments that remain. --John vi. 12.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock"
2: a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: {shard}, {sherd}]
3: an incomplete piece; "fragments of a play"
verb
1: break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented" [syn: {break up}, {fragmentize}, {fragmentise}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
181 Moby Thesaurus words for "fragment": abrade, ace, ana, analects, anthology, atom, atomize, beat, bit, bray, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, brecciate, burst, butt, chip, chunk, cleave, clip, clipping, clippings, collectanea, collection, collop, come apart, comminute, contriturate, crash, crumb, crumble, crunch, crush, cut, cut to pieces, cutting, cuttings, dab, debris, demolish, diffuse, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, disperse, disrupt, dole, dollop, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, end, excerpta, excerpts, explode, extracts, farthing, fission, fleck, florilegium, flour, flowers, flyspeck, fragments, gleanings, go to pieces, gob, gobbet, grain, granulate, granule, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, groat, hair, handful, hunk, iota, jot, levigate, little, little bit, lota, lump, make mincemeat of, mash, mill, mince, minim, minimum, minutiae, miscellanea, miscellany, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, mote, nutshell, ounce, paring, part, particle, pash, pebble, pestle, pick to pieces, piece, pinch, pittance, point, portion, pound, powder, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, rasher, reduce to powder, reduce to rubble, remnant, rend, rive, scatter, scoop, scrap, scrunch, scruple, shard, shatter, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, smash, smash up, smatter, smidgen, smitch, smithereen, smithereens, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, speck, splinter, split, split up, spoonful, spot, squash, squish, stitch, stump, sunder, take apart, tatter, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, total, trifling amount, triturate, trivia, unbuild, undo, unmake, whit, wrack up, wreck
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
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