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fragment
/ˈfɹæɡmənt/
noun
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
"I heard a small fragment of the conversation."
(grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
An incomplete portion of code.
verb
To break apart.
To cause to be broken into pieces.
To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
Synonymsfragmentize
Antonymsdefragment
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