1. (adv.) Piece by piece; gradually; in parts or fragments\.

2. (adv.) Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.

3. (a.) Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate.

4. (n.) A fragment; a scrap.

adrift apart apart from aside from asunder away from bit by bit by degrees by inches by inchmeal by snatches disjointed drop by drop fitfully foot by foot fragmentary gradual gradually in detail in driblets in installments in lots in small doses in snatches in the abstract in twain in two inch by inch inchmeal intermittently little by little one by one part by part piece by piece separately severally slowly sporadic sporadically step-by-step