動詞 fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented) (intransitive) To break apart.
だんぺん 1 断片 a fragment a piece a scrap odds and ends 断片的 な 【形式ばった表現】 fragmentary 《knowledge》 《F》 fragmented 《information》 断片的に in fragments.
- She pieced together the torn letter.（彼女は破れた手紙を繋ぎ合わせた。 ） 2. The archaeologists pieced the fragments of the pot.（考古学者たちは壺の破片をまとめ上げた。 ） 3. After the quilt was damaged, she spent hours piecing it.（キルトが破損した後、彼女は何時間もそれを繕った ...
名詞 fragmentation (countable and uncountable, plural fragmentations) The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration. The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter. (computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk. (computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network. (biology) A ...
1994, David Holbrook, Creativity and Popular Culture, page 37: […] we seek in explaining mental phenomena and behavior always the "minimals," the little fragments of association, on which the mind is (passively) supposed to be based. 1987, J. Golden Taylor, Western Literature Association (U.S.), A Literary History of the American West (page ...
According to Jeff Miller's Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics, the term kernel was first used in this meaning by Pontryagin (in translation by Lehmer) in the slightly broader context of group homomorphisms. It doesn't say why Pontryagin or Lehmer chose that particular word though.
matrices - Word origin / meaning of 'kernel' in linear algebra ...
78 A semicolon is used to separate variables from parameters. Quite often, the terms variables and parameters are used interchangeably, but with a semicolon the meaning is that we are defining a function of the parameters that returns a function of the variables.