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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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Studies of Australian war reporting have been fragmentary and of varied literary quality.
Some kind of story was being told but it was in a non-linear, fragmentary kind of way.
Moreover, the fragmentary form reveals an abidingly mysterious quality in even the most conventional texts of classic Hollywood.
It is this process of automatization that explains the laws of our prose speech with its fragmentary phrases and half-articulated words.
Later workers designated additional fragmentary sauropod bones as topotypes that had been collected in the vicinity of the type locality.
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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