Archaeologists uncovered a fragment of a clay tablet bearing a cuneiform inscription from an ancient Mesopotamian city.
考古学家发现了一块刻有楔形文字的泥板碎片，来自一座古代美索不达米亚城市。
An article about coral restoration begins with a description of a single damaged reef fragment being reattached to a seafloor frame by divers, then broadens to explain the global scale of reef restoration efforts, before returning to that same fragment years later to describe its recovery.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Certain species of ant practice a form of agriculture, cultivating fungus gardens inside their nests by feeding the fungus chewed leaf fragments; in return, the fungus provides a stable, digestible food source that the ants could not otherwise obtain directly from raw leaves.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
Which choice best defines “fragment”?
C — A small broken-off piece.. “fragment” means A small broken-off piece..
Which word means “A small broken-off piece.”?
B — fragment. “fragment” means A small broken-off piece..
fragment — A small broken-off piece.. In Chinese: 碎片;片段;残部.
fragment is pronounced //ˈfræɡmənt//.
Archaeologists uncovered a fragment of a clay tablet bearing a cuneiform inscription from an ancient Mesopotamian city. (考古学家发现了一块刻有楔形文字的泥板碎片，来自一座古代美索不达米亚城市。)
shard, piece, splinter — all close in meaning to fragment (A small broken-off piece.).
Yes. fragment is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
frag(破碎,fracture) + -ment → 破碎的部分 → 碎片。