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What does��fragmentary mean?

The adjective fragmentary means consisting of or reduced to fragments—pieces that have been broken off of or detached from something else.The fossilized remains of a dinosaur might be described as fragmentary if they exist in many different pieces, and perhaps some of the pieces are missing.The word fragment is also used to refer to a part or portion of something that is incomplete or isolated from the whole, such as a fragment of a movie or piece of music. Sometimes, fragmentary is used to describe things as disjointed, disconnected, or incomplete. This sense of the word is most commonly used to describe intangible or abstract things, as in fragmentary evidence or a fragmentary proposal.  The adjective fragmental can be used to mean the same thing as fragmentary.The adjective fragmented describes things that have been broken into fragments or things that are or have been disorganized or disunified in some way, such as an empire that was once unified but is now fragmented.Example: Scholars have been able to piece together the text from the fragmentary remains of the ancient parchment.