FRAGMENTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fragmented mean? 

• FRAGMENTED (adjective)
  The adjective FRAGMENTED has 1 sense:

1. having been divided; having the unity destroyed

  Familiarity information: FRAGMENTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRAGMENTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having been divided; having the unity destroyed

Synonyms:

disconnected; disunited; fragmented; split

Context example:

a split group

Similar:

divided (separated into parts or pieces)

 Context examples 

A measurement of the fragmented parathyroid hormone in a biological specimen.

(Fragmented Parathyroid Hormone Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The determination of the amount of fragmented parathyroid hormone present in a sample.

(Fragmented Parathyroid Hormone Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

Because ancient DNA is often fragmented or missing, the team had modest expectations for what they would find –- maybe one or two genes.

(Extinct Caribbean bird yields DNA after 2,500 years in watery grave, National Science Foundation)

Another idea is that gas moving toward the giant elliptical NGC 1052 may have fragmented and formed NGC 1052-DF2.

(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)

The remnant of the Larsen B Ice Shelf is flowing faster, becoming increasingly fragmented and developing large cracks.

(Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf Nearing Its Final Act, NASA)

Substances comprised of fragmented heparin molecules derived from unfractionated heparin that bind to antithrombin III with a molecular weight ranging from 1000 to 10,000 daltons, which causes changes in property from unfractionated heparin, including decreased protein binding, enhanced bioavailability, decreased platelet interaction, and decreased binding to thrombin.

(Low Molecular Weight Heparin, NCI Thesaurus)

It would be impossible to explain to Eleanor the suspicions, from which the other had, in all likelihood, been hitherto happily exempt; nor could she therefore, in her presence, search for those proofs of the general's cruelty, which however they might yet have escaped discovery, she felt confident of somewhere drawing forth, in the shape of some fragmented journal, continued to the last gasp.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)