Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Broken into fragments; specifically, in biology, broken or separated into parts each of which forms a new individual. See
fragmentation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Broken into fragments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fragment . - adjective
broken into fragments - adjective
composed of fragments
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having been divided; having the unity destroyed
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Examples
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"The major issue we face with orangutans today is what we called the fragmented population," said Marc Ancrenaz from the environmental group Hutan.
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"The major issue we face with orangutans today is what we called the fragmented population," said Marc Ancrenaz from the environmental group Hutan.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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This surface that is temporary, mobile, and fragmented translates to the surface of the painted works.
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Then, under the government of Ariel Sharon in fragmented into a more pragmatic Kadima faction and a hardline-nationalist faction led by Bibi Netanyahu.
Matthew Yglesias » Israel: What a Center-Right Nation Looks Like 2009
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He is an unsettled, jittery man who mostly speaks in fragmented sentences because his mind is like a chess board, it is always working on several things at a time and it is most often a few steps ahead of his conscious ability to recognize what his mind is doing.
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Almost all of the lead in fragmented form is to big to digest and is excreted from the body, so why worry?
Latest Lead-In-Venison Study: Bullet Fragments Spread Up To 18 Inches 2008
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China was indeed fragmented from the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 to the Communist victory in 1949.
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This woman's urge to socialize remained long after the mechanisms that drove conversation had been boiled away, to the point where she spoke in fragmented snippets that sense from sentence to sentence, but when combined into a whole made no sense at all.
Random Snippets on A Quick Entry scouseboy 2004
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Two months into his new role overseeing Jean-Claude Brizard has begun reorganizing a school system he calls "fragmented."
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But in the longer term fragmented, divided, accountable-to-no-one-but-the-president, un-transparent, corrupt and internally feuding armed forces could all too easily be sent off to fight to satisfy internal power struggles.
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