the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece > specifically of something immaterial (3)
A fragment, small piece, little bit, scrap (of something immaterial).
A remnant; a small detached piece; a piece very small by comparison with the whole; a fragmentary… Of immaterial things, conversation, literary…
figurative. = ‘Scrap’, ‘shred’.