fragment
fragment
Definition
frag·ment (frag′mənt; for v. also frag′ment′, frag ment′)
noun
- a part broken away from a whole; broken piece
- a detached, isolated, or incomplete part a fragment of a song
- the part that exists of a literary or other work left unfinished
Etymology: ME < L fragmentum < frangere, break
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to break into fragments; break up
frag′·ment′ed adjective
fragment
Synonyms
fragment
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- pottery: Estimate size and shape of a complete vessel using fragments of pottery from a loan box.
- bone: Here a couple of fragments of bone have been recovered.
Converse of object
- amplify: Alleles are defined on the basis of the length of the amplified fragments.
- survive: The lower masonry courses of the surviving fragment of the Chapter House are in bond with the east wall of the Sacristy.
- scatter: Another six Albanians were wounded by the fragments scattered from the cluster bombs that are banned by international conventions.
Adjective modifier
- tiny: A tiny fragment of amber came to light during the analysis of a ditch soil sample.
- angular: Surface water carrying dissolved calcium carbonate has cemented these angular fragments together in many places forming a breccia.
- scattered: Scattered fragments of some of the claustral buildings are also visible.
- overlapping: The map consisted of multiple overlapping fragments of DNA, arranged in the correct order.
- bony: Don't be deceived by small visible bony fragment, most of fragment is cartilage.
- architectural: Two architectural fragments, probably from a Romanesque shrine, built into the wall.
Modifies a noun
- polymorphism: The AFLP ( amplified fragment length polymorphism ) method selectively amplifies restriction fragments from total genomic DNA.
- identifier: Fragment identifiers Some URIs refer to a location within a resource.
- ion: Selected peptide ions from this first analysis can then be subjected to high-energy collision to obtain fragment ions.
Noun used with modifier
- papyrus: Nor did they; not one papyrus fragment from a cyclic epic poem survives.
- DNA: Day 2 - Separating the DNA fragments requires about 30 minutes to set up.
- playbill: Contains a playbill fragment, on the reverse of the title page.
- peptide: In particular we are developing an efficient ligation approach in which two peptide fragments are coupled while still attached to the solid-phase.
- bp: A 570 bp DNA fragment amplified from the capsid protein gene was digested with Ava II restriction enzyme and separated by gel electrophoresis.
- pottery: Tx date: 28 Jan 1993, Channel 4 Time Signs ( the Turning Wheel ) Wolf Valley, dating pottery fragments.
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