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 Definitions of fracture  [ˈfræk tʃər]  

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Definition of 'fracture' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) fracture
the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition.

2.  fracture
the act of breaking or the state of being broken.

3.  fracture
a break; split.

4.  fracture
the characteristic manner of breaking.

5.  fracture
the characteristic appearance of a broken surface, as of a mineral.

6. (v.t.) fracture
to cause or to suffer a fracture in.

7.  fracture
to break; crack.

8.  fracture
Slang. to amuse highly.

9. (v.i.) fracture
to become fractured; break.

Etymology:  (1375–1425; late ME < MF < L frāctūra a breach, cleft, fracture)

Definition of 'fracture' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) fracture, break
breaking of hard tissue such as bone
"it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"

2. (noun) fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
"they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"

3. (verb) fracture, crack, cracking
the act of cracking something

4. (verb) fracture
violate or abuse
"This writer really fractures the language"

5. (verb) fracture
interrupt, break, or destroy
"fracture the balance of power"

6. (verb) fracture
break into pieces
"The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"

7. (verb) fracture
become fractured
"The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"

8. (verb) fracture
break (a bone)
"She broke her clavicle"

9. (verb) fracture, break
fracture a bone of
"I broke my foot while playing hockey"


Definition of 'fracture' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) fracture
a thin crack in sth hard
a fracture in her ankle; He fractured his elbow.


Definition of 'fracture' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) fracture
the act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach

2. (noun) fracture
the breaking of a bone

3. (noun) fracture
the texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture

4. (verb) fracture
to cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull


Translation of 'fracture' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a break of anything hard, especially a bone
a fracture of the left thigh-bone.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: breuk Arabic flag Arabic: كَسْر، شَجَّـه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: счупване
Brazilian flag Brazilian: fratura Czech flag Czech: zlomenina German flag German: der Bruch
Danish flag Danish: brud Greek flag Greek: κάταγμα, θλάση Spanish flag Spanish: fractura
Estonian flag Estonian: (luu)murd Farsi flag Farsi: شکستگی Finnish flag Finnish: murtuma
French flag French: fracture Hebrew flag Hebrew: שֶׁבֶר Hindi flag Hindi: टूटना, भंजन
Croatian flag Croatian: lom, prijelom (kosti) Hungarian flag Hungarian: (csont)törés Indonesian flag Indonesian: patahan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: (bein)brot Italian flag Italian: frattura Japanese flag Japanese: 骨折
Korean flag Korean: 골절 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: lūžis Latvian flag Latvian: lūzums
Malay flag Malay: patahan Dutch flag Dutch: breuk Norwegian flag Norwegian: (bein)brudd
Polish flag Polish: złamanie Persian flag Persian: شکستگی Pashto flag Pashto: درز، كسر، ماتوالى، چاود
Portuguese flag Portuguese: fractura Romanian flag Romanian: frac­tură Russian flag Russian: перелом; трещина
Slovak flag Slovak: zlomenina Slovenian flag Slovenian: zlom Serbian flag Serbian: fraktura
Swedish flag Swedish: fraktur, [ben]brott Thai flag Thai: การแตก; การร้าว (โดยเฉพาะ Turkish flag Turkish: kırık, çatlak
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 折斷 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: перелом Urdu flag Urdu: کسی سخت چیز کا ٹوٹنا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự gãy, vỡ (nhất là xương Chinese flag Chinese: 折断

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