Associations to the word «Fragment» - Word Associations Network

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Wiktionary

FRAGMENT, noun. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

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

FRAGMENT, noun. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.

FRAGMENT, verb. (intransitive) To break apart.

FRAGMENT, verb. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.

FRAGMENT SHADER, noun. (computer graphics) (OpenGL) pixel shader

FRAGMENT SHADERS, noun. Plural of fragment shader

Dictionary definition

FRAGMENT, noun. A piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock".

FRAGMENT, noun. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.

FRAGMENT, noun. An incomplete piece; "fragments of a play".

FRAGMENT, verb. Break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

William Butler Yeats