rupture
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-? Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *Hrunépti Latin rumpō Latin ruptūrader. Middle French rupturebor. ▲ Latin ruptūrabor. English rupture Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”). Doublet of roture.
Definitions
A burst, split, or break.
- Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.
A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
- He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
- Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.
A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
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A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
- The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.
To dehisce irregularly.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at rupture. 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 rupture. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at rupture
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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