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subfragment

subfragment noun: a subsection of a fragment (of nucleic acid etc).

Noun

subfragment (plural subfragments)

  1. A subsection of a fragment (of nucleic acid etc)

Verb

subfragment (third-person singular simple present subfragments, present participle subfragmenting, simple past and past participle subfragmented)

  1. To split into such fragments

Forms of subfragment

Noun
pluralsubfragments
Verb
third-person singular presentsubfragments
present participlesubfragmenting
past participlesubfragmented
pastsubfragmented

Origin of subfragment

From sub- + fragment.

Questions about subfragment

What does subfragment mean?
Subfragment means a subsection of a fragment (of nucleic acid etc).
What part of speech is subfragment?
Subfragment can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of subfragment?
The plural of subfragment is subfragments.

Words near subfragment in the dictionary

  1. subfractionates
  2. subfractionating
  3. subfractionation
  4. subfractionations
  5. subfractions
  6. subfragment
  7. subfragmenting
  8. subfragments
  9. subframe
  10. subframes
  11. subfranchise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subfragment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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