What does fracture mean?
Definitions for fracture
ˈfræk tʃərfrac·ture
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Princeton's WordNet
fracture, breaknoun
breaking of hard tissue such as bone
"it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, breaknoun
(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"
fracture, crack, crackingverb
the act of cracking something
fractureverb
violate or abuse
"This writer really fractures the language"
fractureverb
interrupt, break, or destroy
"fracture the balance of power"
fractureverb
break into pieces
"The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"
fractureverb
become fractured
"The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"
fractureverb
break (a bone)
"She broke her clavicle"
fracture, breakverb
fracture a bone of
"I broke my foot while playing hockey"
Wiktionary
fracturenoun
the act of breaking, or something that has broken, especially that in bone or cartilage
fracturenoun
a fault or crack in a rock
fractureverb
to break, or cause something to break
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FRACTUREnoun
Etymology: fractura, Latin.
That may do it without any great fracture of the more stable and fixed parts of nature, or the infringement of the laws thereof. Matthew Hale, Origin of Mankind.
But thou wilt sin and grief destroy,
That so the broken bones may joy,
And tune together in a well-set song,
Full of his praises,
Who dead men raises;
Fractures well cur’d, make us more strong. George Herbert.Fractures of the scull are dangerous, not in consequence of the injury done to the cranium itself, but as the brain becomes affected. Samuel Sharp, Surgery.
To Fractureverb
To break a bone.
Etymology: from the noun.
The leg was dressed, and the fractured bones united together. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.
Wikipedia
Fracture
Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid. If a displacement develops perpendicular to the surface, it is called a normal tensile crack or simply a crack; if a displacement develops tangentially, it is called a shear crack, slip band or dislocation.Brittle fractures occur with no apparent deformation before fracture. Ductile fractures occur after visible deformation. Fracture strength, or breaking strength, is the stress when a specimen fails or fractures. The detailed understanding of how a fracture occurs and develops in materials is the object of fracture mechanics.
ChatGPT
fracture
A fracture refers to the breaking or cracking of a hard object or material such as a bone, typically due to high pressure or force. In medicine, it specifically refers to a break in the continuity of the bone. Fractures can range from minor thin cracks to complete breaks. It can be caused by falls, sports injuries, car accidents, or disease such as osteoporosis.
Webster Dictionary
Fracturenoun
the act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach
Fracturenoun
the breaking of a bone
Fracturenoun
the texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture
Fractureverb
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
Etymology: [Cf. F. fracturer.]
Wikidata
Fracture
A fracture is the separation of an object or material into two, or more, pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid almost always occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid. If a displacement develops in this case perpendicular to the surface of displacement, it is called a normal tensile crack or simply a crack; if a displacement develops tangentially to the surface of displacement, it is called a shear crack, slip band, or dislocation. The word fracture is often applied to bones of living creatures, or to crystals or crystalline materials, such as gemstones or metal. Sometimes, in crystalline materials, individual crystals fracture without the body actually separating into two or more pieces. Depending on the substance which is fractured, a fracture reduces strength or inhibits transmission of light. A detailed understanding of how fracture occurs in materials may be assisted by the study of fracture mechanics. A fracture is also the term used for a particular mask data preparation procedure within the realm of integrated circuit design that involves transposing complex polygons into simpler shapes such as trapezoids and rectangles.
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Fracture
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fracture in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fracture in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of fracture in a Sentence
I know our message resonates, with the personal relationships that I have with thousands of people among Navajo Nation and the twelve other tribes, there is no doubt that I will fracture the native vote, and if I fracture the native vote, the Democrats will not win.
Head trauma where there is loss of consciousness can be concerning, specific factors that are cause for further evaluation include if the person is not back to baseline two hours after the injury, if there is concern for a significant enough impact to cause a fracture to the skull, if there is bruising around the eyes, vomiting more than two times or age greater than 65 years old.
Our mission is to fracture all the measures the U.S. government imposes, and today we are setting priorities.
From the satellite data, we're seeing these big fractures spreading across the ice shelf surface, essentially weakening the fabric of the ice ; kind of a bit like a windscreen crack, it's slowly spreading across the ice shelf and eventually it's going to fracture into lots of different pieces.
The doctor diagnosed him with a possible left wrist fracture, he had a confirmed sprain in one of his wrists.
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- breuk, fraksieAfrikaans
- كسرArabic
- ламацца, зламаць, зламацца, ламацьBelarusian
- чупя, троша, лом, фрактура, цепнатина, счупванеBulgarian
- zlomeninaCzech
- Knochenbruch, Fraktur, BruchGerman
- θραύση, σπάω, θραύω, σπάσιμο, κάταγμα, θλάσηGreek
- fracturaSpanish
- murtua, murros, haljeta, murtumaFinnish
- fractureFrench
- brekWestern Frisian
- brisheyManx
- 骨折Japanese
- 골절Korean
- breuk, VerwerfungDutch
- bruddNorwegian
- fratura, fraturar, falhaPortuguese
- rupere, fractură, fracturareRomanian
- ломаться, сломать, перелом, сломаться, ломатьRussian
- frakturSwedish
- எலும்பு முறிவுTamil
- kırıkTurkish
- ламатися, зламатися, зламати, ламатиUkrainian
- gãyVietnamese
- bomabrekVolapük
- בראָךYiddish
- 斷裂Chinese
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