Fragmentation

Definition

fragment / 'frægmǝnt / n ၁။ အပိုင္းအစ။ find several fragments of a Roman vase. ❍ PIECE n ၂။ တစ္ပိုင္းတစ္စ။ I heard only a fragment of their conversation. သူတို႔ေျပာတာ နားစြန္နားဖ်ားပဲ ၾကားမိတယ္။ / fræg'ment / v ၁။ ကြဲသည္။ တစ္ပိုင္းတစ္စစီျဖစ္သည္။ The bullets fragment on impact. ( fig ) Ownership of the large estates is increasingly fragmented (ie divided among several people). ❍ I slept badly and had a strange, fragmented dream. ❏ fragmentary / 'frægmǝntri; US -teri / adj တစ္ပိုင္း တစ္စ။ တစ္စိတ္တစ္ပိုင္းမွ်။ တစ္စြန္းတစ္စ။ fragmentary evidence. ❏ fragmentation / frægmen'teÇʃn / n [U] အစိတ္စိတ္ အႁမႊာႁမႊာကြဲျခင္း။ တစ္စစီကြဲျခင္း။ the fragmentation of the empire into small independent states.

Examples

1. The vase hit the wall and shattered into fragments.
2. [fragment of] : Police found fragments of glass on his clothing.
3. Architectural fragments from Mayan sites
4. [fragment of] : A fragment of text
5. [fragment of] : Fragments of their conversation drifted up to her.