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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.
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.
For folklorists generally, folk beliefs and practices were regarded as the fragmentary and often obscure remnants of older systems.
The human remains comprise one complete mandible, two fragmentary mandibles, and a cranial fragment.
Some kind of story was being told but it was in a non-linear, fragmentary kind of way.
The random inclination of other concentrations of fragmentary specimens is indicative of post mortem disturbance due to bioturbation.

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