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adj. - Consisting of small disconnected parts.

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  • Her fragmental ideas were swept tidily away by his answer.
  • Ill feelings, misunderstandings, disagreements and starmanship have all played their parts in this fragmental process.
  • The barranca is 2000 feet deep and is cut in layers of resistant basaltic lava flows and softer explosive fragmental material.
  • During each subsequent earthquake, however, such bricks are increasingly likely to move, being held by only fragmental mortar, compressive load, and force of habit.
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