different between fragment vs division

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere, present active infinitive of frang? (“I break”). See also fraction.

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?f?æ?m?nt/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /f?æ??m?nt/, /?f?æ?m?nt/

Noun

fragment (plural fragments)

1. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not

2. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
3. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
5. (Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.

Related terms

• fragmental

Translations

Verb

fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)

1. (intransitive) To break apart.
2. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
3. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

Synonyms

• fragmentize

Antonyms

• defragment

Derived terms

• fragmentation
• defragmentation
• defragmenter

Translations

Further reading

• fragment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fragment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fragment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /f????ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /f????men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /f?a??ment/

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. a fragment

Derived terms

• fragment d'Okazaki

Czech

Etymology

From Latin fragmentum.

Noun

fragment m

1. fragment (portion or segment of an object)

Related terms

• See frakce

Further reading

• fragment in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• fragment in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: frag?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmenten, diminutive fragmentje n)

1. a fragment

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?a?.m??/
• Homophone: fragments
• Hyphenation: frag?ment

Noun

fragment m (plural fragments)

1. fragment

Derived terms

• fragmentaire
• fragmenter

Related terms

• fraction

Further reading

• “fragment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum

Noun

fragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment or fragmenter, definite plural fragmenta or fragmentene)

1. a fragment

Related terms

• fragmentere

References

• “fragment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum

Noun

fragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment, definite plural fragmenta)

1. a fragment

Related terms

• fragmentere

References

• “fragment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fra?.m?nt/

Noun

fragment m inan

1. fragment

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fragment and its source, Latin fragmentum.

Noun

fragment n (plural fragmente)

1. fragment

Declension

Synonyms

• bucat?, frântur?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fr??ment/
• Hyphenation: frag?ment

Noun

fràgment m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. fragment

Declension

References

• “fragment” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

fragment n

1. a fragment

Declension

Related terms

• fragmentarisk
• fragmentera
• fragmentering
• fragmentisera
• fragmentisering

References

• fragment in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin d?v?si?, d?v?si?nem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle d?v?sus (“divided”), from d?vid? (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??v???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)

1. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.

   Synonyms: split, lith

   Antonyms: combination, fusion, merger, unification
2. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
3. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.

   Antonym: multiplication

4. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.

5. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.

   Hyponyms: square division, triangular division

6. A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
7. (taxonomy) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.

8. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
9. (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

10. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
11. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
12. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
13. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.

    Hyponyms: identification division, environment division, data division, procedure division

14. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

    Synonym: (informal) div

Synonyms

• (taxonomy): divisio, phylum

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• separation
• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
• denominator
• fraction
• numerator

Further reading

• division on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Noun

division c (singular definite divisionen, plural indefinite divisioner)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Declension

Further reading

• “division” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin divisio, divisionem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle divisus (“divided”), from d?vid? (“divide”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vi.zj??/

Noun

division f (plural divisions)

1. division (act or process of dividing)
2. (arithmetic) division
3. (military) division
4. division (subsection)

Related terms

• diviser

Further reading

• “division” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

division

1. Alternative form of divisioun

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin divisio, divisionis, noun of process form from perfect passive participle divisus (“divided”), from d?vid? (“divide”)

Noun

division c

1. division; act of dividing (e.g. numbers); large military unit; section of a company
2. (sports) division, league; an organization of sports teams that habitually play against each other for a championship; the level on which a certain team plays, as compared to others

Declension