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From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“to break”) + -mentum.

A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not. a fragment of an ancient writing
A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
An incomplete portion of code.
Internet A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign. The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.
A split piece of an organism that has undergone the asexual reproduction process where the organism splits into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.

intransitive To break apart. Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.
transitive To cause to be broken into pieces. Samois includes celebate ^([sic]), heterosexual and bisexual women as well as lesbians, and I feel very strongly that this is the wisest choice. Our community is so fragile that we can't afford to fragment it by excommunicating non-lesbian women.
transitive To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
intransitive Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.