fragment

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a piece broken off or cut off of something else

"a fragment of rock"

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a portion of a natural object

"they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"

a broken piece of a brittle artifact

fragment, shard, sherd

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an incomplete piece

"fragments of a play"

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an artistic or literary composition

"he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests"

break or cause to break into pieces

"The plate fragmented"

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