fragment

Noun
  1. A piece broken off or cut off of something else (synset 109308160)
    "a fragment of rock"
    is a type of: part, piece - a portion of a natural object
    subtypes:
    • bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap - a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
    • brickbat - a fragment of brick used as a weapon
    • cinder, clinker - a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
    • clast - (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock
    • coal, ember - a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
    • filing - a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file
    • paring, shaving, sliver - a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
    • restriction fragment - the fragment of DNA that is produced by cleaving DNA with a restriction enzyme
    • scraping - (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected
    • spall, spawl - a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge
    • spark - a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction
  2. A broken piece of a brittle artifact (synset 104191744)
    is a type of: piece - a separate part of a whole
    subtypes: potsherd - a shard of pottery
    same as: shard, sherd
  3. An incomplete piece (synset 107021796)
    "fragments of a play"
    is a type of: piece - an artistic or literary composition
    subtypes: bit, snatch - a small fragment
Verb
  1. Break or cause to break into pieces (synset 200338881)
    "The plate fragmented"
    is a type of: break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up - become separated into pieces or fragments
    subtypes:
    same as: break up, fragmentise, fragmentize

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