fragmento

m.

1 fragment, piece.

2 shard, potsherd.

pres.indicat.

1^st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: fragmentar.

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fragmento

► nombre masculino

1 (pedazo) fragment, piece

2 (literario) passage

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noun m.

1) fragment

2) excerpt

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SM

1) (=trozo) [de escultura, hueso, bomba, roca] fragment; [de vasija] fragment, shard

fue alcanzada por fragmentos de cristales — she was hit by flying glass o fragments of glass

2) (=extracto) [de novela, discurso, obra musical] passage; [ya aislado] excerpt, extract

a través del tabique se oían fragmentos de la conversación — you could hear snippets o snatches of their conversation through the partition

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masculino

a) (de jarrón) shard; (de hueso) fragment

b) (de conversación) snippet, snatch

c) (de novela, carta - extracto) extract, passage; (- resto, pedazo) fragment

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= fragment, snippet, splinter, broken piece.

Ex. During his stay in Laputa, Captain Gulliver was very impressed by a book-writing machine which produced fragments of sentences which were dictated to scribes and later pieced together.

Ex. Automation in libraries can only provide snippets of information, not knowledge.

Ex. However, others see the splinters in the discipline as a step in its revitalization.

Ex. Using charred bits of wood from campfires, broken pieces of clay pots, and stone spearpoints and arrowheads, the archaeologist investigates the past.

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* fragmento de película = film clip, movie clip.

* fragmento de vasija = potsherd, potsherd.

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masculino

a) (de jarrón) shard; (de hueso) fragment

b) (de conversación) snippet, snatch

c) (de novela, carta - extracto) extract, passage; (- resto, pedazo) fragment

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= fragment, snippet, splinter, broken piece.

Ex: During his stay in Laputa, Captain Gulliver was very impressed by a book-writing machine which produced fragments of sentences which were dictated to scribes and later pieced together.

Ex: Automation in libraries can only provide snippets of information, not knowledge.

Ex: However, others see the splinters in the discipline as a step in its revitalization.

Ex: Using charred bits of wood from campfires, broken pieces of clay pots, and stone spearpoints and arrowheads, the archaeologist investigates the past.

* fragmento de película = film clip, movie clip.

* fragmento de vasija = potsherd, potsherd.

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fragmento

masculine

1 (de un jarrón) shard; (de un hueso) fragment

2 (de una conversación) snippet, snatch

3 (de una canción) extract, excerpt; (de una novela) extract, excerpt, passage; (de una carta, un poema — extracto) extract, passage; (— resto, pedazo) fragment

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Del verbo fragmentar: (conjugate fragmentar)

fragmento es:

1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

fragmentó es:

3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

Multiple Entries:
fragmentar    
fragmento
fragmento sustantivo masculino

a) (de jarrón) shard;

(de hueso) fragment

b) (de conversación) snippet, snatch

c) (extracto de novela, carta) extract, passage

fragmentar verbo transitivo to fragment
fragmento sustantivo masculino fragment
(pasaje, párrafo) passage
'fragmento' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
extracto
- astilla
English:
extract
- fragment
- snatch
- clip

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fragmento nm

1. [pedazo] fragment, piece

2. [de película] excerpt, clip;

[de novela] excerpt, passage; [de ópera, sinfonia] passage

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fragmento

m fragment; extracto de novela, poema excerpt, extract

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fragmento nm

1) : fragment, shard

2) : bit, snippet

3) : excerpt, passage

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fragmento n fragment