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Breakage vs Fragment - What's the difference?

breakage | fragment |

As nouns the difference between breakage and fragment

is that breakage is the act of breaking while fragment is fragment.

breakage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of breaking.
  • Something that has been broken.
    • At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages .
  • The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.

    • fragment

    English

    (wikipedia fragment)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
  • (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
  • (computing)

    • Related terms

    * fragmental

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break apart.
  • To cause to be broken into pieces.

    • Synonyms

    * fragmentize

    Derived terms

    * fragmentation

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