fracture
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Latin frangō Latin frāctūrus Latin frāctūrader. Old French fracturebor. Middle English fracture English fracture From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin frāctūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle frāctus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.
Definitions
An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
- Hall found the immediate cause at Rickerscote to have been the complete fracture of an axle on STS 53241, the freight train's ninth wagon. The fracture had been caused by fatigue initiated by corrosion pitting on the axle surface.
A break in bone or cartilage.
A fault or crack in a rock.
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To break, or cause something to break.
To amuse (a person) greatly
To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.
- “You fracture me, Frankie,” Patsy said. “You should take that act on the road. Howsabout now?” This is the way it would go whenever I showed up at Patsy's, a dual of digs and wisecracks with the disapproving groans of those within earshot.
The neighborhood
Derived
antifracture, Bennett fracture, Bennett's fracture, boxer's fracture, brittle fracture, chalkstick fracture, Colles' fracture, complicated fracture, compound fracture, compression fracture, cryofracture, Don Juan fracture, ductile fracture, Dupuytren's fracture, fractural, fracture mechanics, fracture plane, fractureproof, Galeazzi fracture, greenstick fracture, hairline fracture, hangman's fracture, hip fracture, Holstein-Lewis fracture, hydrofracture, incomplete fracture, Jones fracture, Lisfranc fracture, macrofracture, Maisonneuve fracture, microfracture, mono-fracture, multifracture, nanofracture, nightstick fracture, nonfracture, oblique fracture, open fracture, pilon fracture, postfracture · +14 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at fracture. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at fracture. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at fracture
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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