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fragment - a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock" |
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part,
piece something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"
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bit,
chip,
flake,
fleck,
scrap the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press; "he looked around for the right size bit"
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brickbat blunt criticism
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cinder,
clinker a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
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clast (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock
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coal,
ember fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
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filing preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.; "I have some filing to do"
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paring,
shaving,
sliver (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel; "she could peel an apple with a single long paring"
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restriction fragment the fragment of DNA that is produced by cleaving DNA with a restriction enzyme
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scraping (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected; "they collected blood scrapings for analysis"
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spall,
spawl a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge; "a truck bearing a mound of blue spalls"
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spark a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction
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fragment - an incomplete piece; "fragments of a play" |
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piece a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence"
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bit,
snatch the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press; "he looked around for the right size bit"
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