fragment

Fragment (from Latin frangere 'break', frāgmentum '(break) piece, remnant'), sometimes also German fragment, denotes:

• generally an unfinished work of art from art, music, literature, etc.
• in the fine arts an incomplete sculpture, a non-finito
• in art history a remnant , no longer completely preserved object, e.g. B. a piece of an originally larger fresco or a preserved part of a sculpture (art)
• in manuscript studies , epigraphy and papyrology a fragmentary written document
• Fragment (literature) , a literary genre
• in genetic engineering a part of the DNA, see DNA sequence
• Fragment (computer graphics) in computer graphics the data that determine a displayed pixel
• in information processing an addressable part of a document, see fragment identifier
• in mass spectrometry the result of fragmentation (mass spectrometry)
• In chemistry, the structural fragment is part of a molecule
• the misappropriated use of manuscripts as parchment waste
• Fragment (sculpture) , sculpture ensemble in Bremen

See also:

• Fragmenta
• Fragments
• Collection of fragments
• Fragmentation
• fracture
• Concrement

Wiktionary: Fragment  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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