Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fragment

3 senses of fragment

Sense 1
fragment -- (a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock")
       => part, piece -- (a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite")

Sense 2
shard, sherd, fragment -- (a broken piece of a brittle artifact)
       => piece -- (a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence")

Sense 3
fragment -- (an incomplete piece; "fragments of a play")
       => piece -- (an artistic or literary composition; "he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb fragment

1 sense of fragment

Sense 1
break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise -- (break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented")
       => break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart -- (become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart")