Fracture Definition
frăkchər
fractured, fractures, fracturing
noun
fractures
The act or process of breaking.
American Heritage Medicine
A breaking or being broken.
Webster's New World
A break in a body part, esp. in a bone, or a tear in a cartilage.
Webster's New World
The characteristic manner in which a mineral breaks.
American Heritage
A break, crack, or split.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- ruptured cartilage
- greenstick-fracture
- compound fracture
- closed fracture
- simple fracture
- broken limb
- broken bone
- break
- shift
- geological fault
- faulting
- fault
- cracking
- crack
- separation
verb
fractured, fractures, fracturing
To break, crack, or split.
Webster's New World
To break, crack, or split.
Webster's New World
To break up; disrupt.
Webster's New World
To break up; disintegrate.
Webster's New World
To violate (rules or conventions) flagrantly or thoroughly.
A nonnative speaker who fractures the language.
Webster's New World
Origin of Fracture
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From Old French, from Latin fractura (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrag-, from whence also English break. See fraction.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old French from Latin frāctūra from frāctus past participle of frangere to break bhreg- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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