Word Finder - fragment

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A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not

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I heard a small fragment of the conversation.

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(grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.

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An incomplete portion of code.

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A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.

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To break apart.

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To cause to be broken into pieces.

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To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

Australia is essentially the fragment of a great plateau land of Archean rocks.

This work is lost, and we have no direct knowledge of any fragment of it.

From this was imitated the Old-English fragment printed by Th.

They contain, however, a fragment of a separate tract on Polygonal Numbers.

The trio continued to click down the list of people at Bird Song who were around when the bone fragment theft was discovered.

Cynthia expressed concern that Fred's newly acquired knowledge that the bone fragment was human might jeopardize his court-imposed decree.

A fragment is preserved in Epiphanius, Haer.

In some cases, a fragment of broken tooth may be bonded back into place.

It was senseless to look elsewhere, as both had been present when Cynthia placed the small fragment in the cut glass enclosure.

The first fruits of Bentham's studies, the Fragment on Government, appeared in 1776.

Visitors are shown the "Church of the Annunciation" with caves (including a fragment of a pillar hanging from the ceiling, and said to be miraculously supported) which are described as the scene of the annunciation, the "workshop of Joseph," the "synagogue," and a stone table, said to have been used by Christ.

The fragment was apparently written before A.D.

Khufu's work in the temple of Bubastis is proved by a surviving fragment, and he is figured slaying his enemy at Sinai before the god Thoth.

A fragment of the second book was published later at La Haye (1659), but the remaining five were never composed, Gassendi apparently thinking that after the Discussiones Peripateticae of Francesco Patrizzi little field was left for his labours.

The earth, as a rule, is supposed to have grown out of some original matter, perhaps an animal, perhaps an egg which floated on the waters, perhaps a fragment of soil fished up out of the floods by a beast or a god.

The Cephisian marsh was one scene of man's birth according to a fragment of Pindar, who mentions Egyptian and Libyan legends of the same description.

Moors, whose princes intrigued against one another, and were to the last ready to aid the Christians in the hope of obtaining a small fragment of territory for themselves.

A second fragment (now in the museum at Aix in Provence) was brought from Egypt in 1809; it supplements the preamble by specifying the titles of the emperors and Caesars and the number of times they had held them, whereby the date of publication can be accurately determined.

The richly embroidered blouse, making the breasts imperceptible, is pure materiality, catching light, sparkling another body fragment.

If the input model has an alpha carbon at the origin a rough backbone trace of map regions matching the fragment may be obtained.

At higher photon energies, smaller fragment ions are formed following cleavage of more than one bond.

Selected peptide ions from this first analysis can then be subjected to high-energy collision to obtain fragment ions.

This fragment contains only 20 Greek consonants (whole or damaged) on five lines.

This fragment of the complete ACTH molecule does not stimulate the adrenal cortex to produce hormones.

The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat.

Here is some fragment output from a query designed to find complete coding regions for genes encoding xanthine dehydrogenase.

The large fragment deletion mutations were located in a hot spot for deletion mutations were located in a hot spot for deletion that has been reported.

The code fragment allows web developers to include this search box within a web page.

Simon wrote a work called the " Great Announcement, " a fragment of which is yet extant in a quotation made by Hippolytus.

Nor did they; not one papyrus fragment from a cyclic epic poem survives.

Of this gospel only one fragment has been preserved in Hippolytus, Philos.

The original, which consisted of a preface and thirteen books, is not lost, but we have a Latin translation of the first six books and a fragment of another on polygonal numbers by Xylander of Augsburg (1575), and Latin and Greek translations by Gaspar Bachet de Merizac (1621-1670).

Cuvier's morphological doctikne received its fullest development in the principle of the " correlation of parts," which he applied to palaeontological investigation, namely, that every animal is a definite whole, and that no part can be varied without entailing correlated and law-abiding variations in other parts, so that from a fragment it should be possible, had we a full knowledge of the laws of animal structure or morphology, to reconstruct the whole.

In Notulae syriacae (privately printed 1887) Wright edited the surviving fragment of a 3rd recension which is preserved in a 13th-century MS. at Cambridge.

Nau, who appends to it the surviving fragment of his treatise on the composition of man as consisting of soul and body.?

A fragment of the "sacred marriage" of Zas and Chthonie was found on an Egyptian papyrus at the end of the r9th century.

Our knowledge of the life of the celebrated Latin playwright, Publius Terentius Afer, is derived chiefly from a fragment of the lost work of Suetonius, De viris illustribus, preserved in the commentary of Donatus, who adds a few words of his own.

To the east of the gorge the wall still follows the edge of low cliffs of the, coast, and continues to do so all along the east side of Achradina 1 The date of the fragment of city wall immediately to the north-east of the so-called palaestra is uncertain; it is therefore doubtful whether it can belong to this system of defences (Lupus, pp. 308, 331).

There is little in Dunbar which may be called lyrical, and little of the dramatic. His Interlud of the Droichis [Dwarf's] part of the Play, one of the pieces attributed to him, is supposed to be a fragment of a dramatic composition.

In the South Kensington Museum is a fragment of such a tablet or slab; the figure, a portion of which remains, could not have been less than about 14 in.

Only a small fragment of his annals has been discovered relating to his invasion of Egypt in 567 B.C., and referring to " Phut of the Ionians."

The sacred buildings, mosques, &c., were patched up (except a few which were quite ruinous) and the walls wholly removed, but an unsightly fragment of a palace-tower still remained in 1906.

Fragment Hypothesis.-The previous theories have brought to light and emphasized the fact that within the Apocalypse there are passages inconsistent with the tone and character of the whole.

For while 1-8 was most probably a Jewish apocalyptical fragment and strongly particularistic, 9-17 is clearly universalist in character and is probably from the hand of our author.

Thus 7-12, which is really a Jewish fragment recounting the victory of Michael over Satan, has to a certain degree been adapted to a Christian environment by the insertion of the b - I 1.

Weiss, supported by Bousset in the second edition of his commentary, that 7-12 is a fragment of a Jewish apocalypse, of which lob-11 is an addition of our author.

This is that this chapter forms an introduction to xvii., which was an independent fragment.

The validity of such an hypothesis was attacked as early as the 4th century by Dionysius of Alexandria in the fragment of his treatise irEpi 7ray yeAuA;v, in Eusebius, H.E.

Part of the original MS., containing the end of the genuine work, and the title and name of the author of the fragment are lost.

The fragment beginning TfOva F t 'ac -yap xaaov has been translated by Thomas Campbell, the poet.