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fragments

/noun frag-muhnt; verb frag-muhnt, -ment, frag-ment/US // noun ˈfræg mənt; verb ˈfræg mənt, -mɛnt, frægˈmɛnt //

碎片,碎片化,碎裂,碎裂物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a part broken off or detached: scattered fragments of the broken vase.
    • : an isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part: She played a fragment of her latest composition.
    • : an odd piece, bit, or scrap.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to collapse or break into fragments; disintegrate: The chair fragmented under his weight.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to break into pieces or fragments; cause to disintegrate: Outside influences soon fragmented the Mayan culture.
    • : to divide into fragments; disunify.
    • : Computers. to store in noncontiguous sectors on a disk drive, splitting the file into smaller pieces and breaking up available free space on the disk.Compare defragment.

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Examples

  • He held up a fist-size chunk of sandy brown rock embedded with a dark, ridged oblong shape, unmistakably a plant or shell fragment.

  • We humans all have an inborn tendency to create a plausible story out of memory fragments.

  • I still get bloody noses at random times, and will for the rest of my life — a bone fragment that didn’t heal properly is just kind of floating in there.

  • Even the medium of streaming is being shattered into ever tinier fragments by the likes of Instagram, Quibi and TikTok.

  • Sometimes these rock fragments, floating in outer space, enter Earth’s atmosphere, where gravity pulls them in.

  • The fragment is written in Coptic, not Greek, and is not actually from the Bible, as the title would indicate.

  • It really is startling that not one fragment of an airplane that weighed 250 tons has yet turned up.

  • If it falls apart, then the “Caliphate” will almost certainly fragment, too.

  • A fragment penetrated her shoulder, missing a major artery by an inch.

  • Day 50 of the search for Flight MH370 has come and gone without one fragment of the Boeing 777 being found.

  • It is undoubtedly true if we look at any little portion of business activity taken as a fragment by itself.

  • It is somewhat curious that, previous to the publication of Christabel, there appeared a conclusion to that splendid fragment.

  • Fragment, apparently from a columnar mass, of a stone intermediate between clink-stone and compact felspar.

  • The author of this fragment writes in the style which seems to belong to the primitive ages.

  • The independent Moquis are a fragment of the ancient ruling race of New Mexico.