The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - fragmentn.

1) piece, portion, part, chip, shard or sherd, splinter, sliver, scrap, bit, speck, snippet, morsel, crumb, particle, remnant, shred, snatch: A fragment of the airliner was found twenty miles from the crash. 2) fragments. smithereens; debris, Literary disjecta membra: The car was blown into thousands of fragments. I tried to pick up the fragments of my former life. --v. 3) shatter, splinter, break or split (up) , explode, disintegrate, come or go to pieces, come apart: I picked up the skull and it fragmented in my fingers.