shard, sherd, fragment
(noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact
fragment
(noun) an incomplete piece; “fragments of a play”
fragment
(noun) a piece broken off or cut off of something else; “a fragment of rock”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fragment (plural fragments)
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
(grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
(computing) An incomplete portion of code.
(internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.
fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)
(intransitive) To break apart.
(transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
(transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
• fragmentize
• defragment
Source: Wiktionary
Frag"ment, n. Etym: [L. fragmentum, fr. frangere to break: cf. F. fragment. See Break, v. t.]
Definition: A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing. Gather up the fragments that remain. John vi. 12.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
13 February 2025
(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; “His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage”; “This play will either make or break the playwright”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
