A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

A piece of a packet. When a router is forwarding an IP packet to a network that has a maximum packet size smaller than the packet size, it is forced to break up that packet into multiple fragments. These fragments will be reassembled by the IP layer at the destination host. See also: Maximum Transmission Unit. [Source: RFC1392

These are packets less than 64 octets long, and with either CRC (Cyclic Redundant Check) or alignment error(s).

A fragment of DNA is a piece of DNA, usually a shorter piece than you started out with. For example, if you have a circular plasmid of DNA and you cut it in two places, you will have two fragments of DNA.

a group of words that begins with a capitalized word and ends with a period, yet it does not form a complete sentence

a group of words that is punctuated like a sentence and that is trying to function as a sentence, but one of the necessary elements is missing

an incomplete sentence

a sentence which is not complete, and therefore not grammatically correct

The space allocated for an amount of data (usually at the end of a file) too small to require a full block, consisting of one or more subblocks (one thirty-second of block size).

a one-dimensional interval that has a physical size and spatial location

In the BSD "fast filesystem," a fragment is a portion of a disk block - usually one-eighth of a block, but possibly one-quarter or one-half of a block. If the last portion of a file doesn't occupy a full disk block, the filesystem will allocate one or more fragments rather than an entire block. Don't confuse "fragments" with "fragmentation." Fragments allow the BSD filesystem to use larger block sizes without becoming inefficient.

to split up. Computers deal with blocks of information often of a fixed size. Some files are too large to fit into a single block and therefore span multiple blocks. If the blocks associated with a file are not contiguous, the file is said to be "fragmented". Fragmentation is a result of the repeated allocation and deallocation of blocks for use by various programs, and generally slows down the operation of the computer. A fragmented hard drive is remedied with a de-fragging utility. Rebooting your computer will de-fragment RAM. See the freeBlock.

A data structure containing pixel information which is a product of the pixel rasterization operation. A fragment consists of a color value and the coordinate of the frame buffer location at which that color value is to be written.

a tuple which consists of a window coordinate, colors and texture coordinates

Fragments are generated by the rasterization of primitives. Each fragment corresponds to a single pixel and includes color, depth, and sometimes texture-coordinate values.

A fragment is a computer graphics term for all of the data necessary needed to generate a pixel in the frame buffer.

a sequence dependent property and depends primarily on the sum of the interactions between the constituent dinucleotides

a sequence of assembly language instructions or storage declarations, possibly containing

a unique portion of NAAP or a polynucleotide encoding NAAP which can be identical in sequence to, but shorter in length than, the parent sequence

a variant polypeptide having an amino acid sequence that is entirely the same as part but not all of any amino acid sequence of any polypeptide of the invention

Sets of Object Classes in a Network Resource Information Model grouping classes that model Resources from a certain perspective. An Object Class can belong to one or more Fragments. source: EU-P103 domain: Information Model usage: EU-P103

an extension of a plug-in and all the classes and resource files it contains are automatically added to the main plug-in classpath

As standardized in RFC 3986, the fragment is a part of a URI that is separated from the path/file name by a "#" character, and provides information that is reserved for processing by agents that are invoked by the browser to handle the resource information type of the URI. WebCGM standardizes the syntax and semantics of a URI fragment, for transmitting object and picture selection and behavior information to WebCGM viewers.