The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word FRAGMENT
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More clues leading to the result FRAGMENT
- Piece ragmen wrapped in paper
- French spy head of MI6 detained for a bit
- Bit newspaper people in foot
- Newspaper people in this publication disintegrate
- French spy keeps mobile bit
- Make fun of people in newspaper piece
- Farm gent made up piece
- Scrap paper surrounds Steptoe and Son?
- Tabloid workers filling in newspaper piece
- Piece in the paper about Steptoe and son
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What does FRAGMENT mean?
FRAGMENT noun- A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
- (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
- An incomplete portion of code.
- A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.
- To break apart.
- To cause to be broken into pieces.
- To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.