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What does fragmentary mean?

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Adjective
  1. Consisting of fragments; disconnected; scattered.
  2. (geology) Composed of the fragments of other rocks.
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The human remains comprise one complete mandible, two fragmentary mandibles, and a cranial fragment.
It is this process of automatization that explains the laws of our prose speech with its fragmentary phrases and half-articulated words.
For folklorists generally, folk beliefs and practices were regarded as the fragmentary and often obscure remnants of older systems.
Being informed of what transpired during fragmentary blackouts often cued further recall.
In spite of its brevity, it still remains a fine specimen of how a group of fragmentary ideas can be moulded into a unified whole.
Only a few, fragmentary teeth are preserved, and judging by the fragments and the size of alveoli, the teeth were gracile.

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