1. A piece broken off or cut off of something else
   "a fragment of rock"
    
2. A broken piece of a brittle artifact
   "Archaeologists carefully collected fragments of ancient pottery from the excavation site";
   - shard, sherd
    
3. An incomplete piece
   "fragments of a play"

1. Break or cause to break into pieces
   "The plate fragmented";
   - break up, fragmentize, fragmentise [Brit]

Derived forms: fragments, fragmented, fragmenting

Type of: break, come apart, fall apart, part, piece, separate, split up

Encyclopedia: Fragment