What does «fragmento» mean in Spanish?
- Piece of a thing that is considered part of a whole, usually after breaking, splitting, dividing, etc.; piece, portion.
Examples of use in Spanish: "se encontraron fragmentos óseos compatibles con restos humanos".
"el cristal se partió en fragmentos".
- Part extracted from a text, sound, video or other similar creation; excerpt.
Examples of use in Spanish: "en este fragmento de su libro hace una clara autocrítica de su gobierno".
"si invertimos este fragmento de la música escuchamos claramente palabras diabólicas".
"escuché un fragmento de la conversación".
"leeré solo un fragmento del cuento".
- Parts or remains that are still preserved of some artistic or building work.
Examples of use in Spanish: "solo quedan fragmentos de la obra escultórica".
- (fragmento literario) A short or unfinished prose work, it is considered a literary genre. It is a very ancient form of writing, present in many civilizations.
- (fragmento de oración) In Language, also called an incomplete sentence, is a set of words that does not form a complete sentence, either because it does not express a complete thought or because it lacks some grammatical element, such as a subject or verb. A dependent clause without an independent clause is an example of an incomplete sentence.
- (fragmento de manuscrito) Remnant of a handwritten book. They are studied by fragmentology, the study of surviving fragments of medieval or Renaissance manuscripts. A manuscript fragment may consist of whole or partial leaves, typically made of parchment, conjugate pairs, or sometimes of gatherings of a parchment book or codex, or of parts of single-leaf documents, such as notarial acts.
- (Fragmento Muratoriano) The oldest known list of canonical books of the New Testament.
- (fragmento Klenow) Protein fragment produced by enzymatic processing of DNA polymerase I.
- (fragmento de Okazaki) RNA-DNA fragments resulting from DNA synthesis on the discontinuous strand.
- (fragmento de Cuadrato) Historical paragraph composed by Quadratus for the emperor Hadrian around 125 AD, the only surviving copy of this apologetic writing.