Definition of "fragment" []

• A small part broken off or detached. (noun)
• An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit: overheard fragments of their conversation; extant fragments of an old manuscript. (noun)
• Grammar A sentence fragment. (noun)
• To break or separate (something) into fragments. (verb-transitive)
• To become broken into fragments: After the election, the coalition fragmented. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "NOTES: As curious as the fragment is the periodical that published it."
• "As they took his money and would not let him go, he told them who he was, and that the Prince of Orange wanted to take his life; and he began to scream for a boat -- and then to cry, because he had lost a piece of wood on his ride which he called a fragment of Our Saviour's cross."
• "Orange wanted to take his life; and he began to scream for a boat -- and then to cry, because he had lost a piece of wood on his ride which he called a fragment of Our Saviour's cross."