What does rupture mean?
Definitions for rupture
ˈrʌp tʃərrup·ture
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Princeton's WordNet
rupturenoun
state of being torn or burst open
rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling outnoun
a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
"they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
ruptureverb
the act of making a sudden noisy break
tear, rupture, snap, bustverb
separate or cause to separate abruptly
"The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"
Wiktionary
rupturenoun
A burst, split, or break.
rupturenoun
A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
rupturenoun
A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
rupturenoun
A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
ruptureverb
To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
Etymology: From rupture, or its source, ruptura, from the participle stem of rumpere.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Rupturenoun
Etymology: rupture, Fr. from ruptus, Lat.
Th’ egg,
Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclos’d
Their callow young. John Milton.A lute string will bear a hundred weight without rupture, but at the same time cannot exert its elasticity. Arbuthnot.
The diets of infants ought to be extremely thin, such as lengthen the fibres without rupture. Arbuthnot.
When the parties, that divide the commonwealth, come to a rupture, it seems every man’s duty to chuse a side. Jonathan Swift.
The rupture of the groin or scrotum is the most common species of hernia. Samuel Sharp, Surgery.
To Ruptureverb
To break; to burst; to suffer disruption.
Etymology: from the noun.
The vessels of the brain and membranes, if ruptured, absorb the extravasated blood. Samuel Sharp, Surgery.
ChatGPT
rupture
Rupture is the act of breaking or bursting suddenly and completely, causing damage or discontinuation. It can also refer to an instance of a relationship or a situation being broken off or disrupted. In medicine, it may refer to the bursting or tearing of an organ or tissue.
Webster Dictionary
Rupturenoun
the act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring
Rupturenoun
breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture
Rupturenoun
hernia. See Hernia
Rupturenoun
a bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion
Ruptureverb
to part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel
Ruptureverb
to produce a hernia in
Ruptureverb
to suffer a breach or disruption
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Rupture
rup′tūr, n. the act of breaking or bursting: the state of being broken: a breach of the peace: hernia (q.v.), esp. abdominal.—v.t. to break or burst: to part by violence.—v.i. to suffer a breach: (bot.) to dehisce irregularly.—adj. Rup′tile (bot.), dehiscent by an irregular splitting of the walls.—n. Rup′tion, a breach.—adj. Rup′tive.—n. Rup′tūary, a member of the plebeian class. [Fr.,—Low L. ruptura—L. rumpĕre, ruptum, to break.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Rupture
Forcible or traumatic tear or break of an organ or other soft part of the body.
CrunchBase
Rupture
Rupture was an online destination connecting gamers and allowing them to share gaming experiences, events, challenges, and achievements. The site was founded by Shawn Fanning and investor Ron Conway. After working together with the original Napster and then with music distributor Snocap, the two began work on Rupture, a social network for MMORPGs; primarily for World of WarCraft (WOW) gamers.The company was based in San Francisco, California. Parent company ThreeSF, Inc., was acquired by Electronic Arts on May 28, 2008.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
rupture
This word signifies the commencement of hostilities between any two or more powers.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of rupture in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of rupture in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of rupture in a Sentence
You can imagine a balloon that gets filled up with water, and then you have this tense sheath that's surrounding the balloon, and that's what gives you the stiffness with an erection. And the fracture is a rupture of the balloon and the sheath surrounding the balloon, the vast majority of cases are one-sided, or unilateral, corporal ruptures. But sometimes Rajveer Purohit do have someone who's had a bilateral, or two-sided, corporal fracture involving the urethra.
When there's a rupture, a disconnect, a break away from our spiritual lands, the heart is in one place and the mind in another. That's the reality the Nukak face, which causes what you would call depression.
I work on the physics of the rupture process and I have become convinced that the physics is in a class of phenomena that are called 'chaotic,' if this is true, then we will probably never predict earthquakes.
Life into death—life’s other shape, no rupture, only crossing.
Unfortunately, a rupture has been confirmed but I think we will get the procedures for the deal concluded first and then we will look into all these things at the party.
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