fracture

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
A break in bone or cartilage.
A fault or crack in a rock.

verb

To break, or cause something to break.
To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.

Pronunciation

/ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃʰəː/ [ˈfɹʷæk.t͡ʃʰəː] /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃɚ/ [ˈfɹʷæk.t͡ʃʰɚ] ~ [ˈfɹʷæk.t͡ʃʰɹ̩] en-us-fracture.ogg /ˈfɹæk.tjəɹ/ [ˈfɹʷæk.tʰjəɹ]

Word forms

fracture fractures fracturing fractured

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Latin frangō Latin frāctūrus Latin frāctūrader. Old French fracturebor. Middle English fracture English fracture From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin frāctūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle frāctus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.

Related words

fractal fraction fragment

Derived words

antifracture Bennett fracture Bennett's fracture boxer's fracture brittle fracture chalkstick fracture Colles' fracture complicated fracture compound fracture compression fracture cryofracture Don Juan fracture ductile fracture Dupuytren's fracture fractural fracture mechanics fracture plane fractureproof Galeazzi fracture greenstick fracture hairline fracture hangman's fracture hip fracture Holstein-Lewis fracture hydrofracture incomplete fracture Jones fracture Lisfranc fracture macrofracture Maisonneuve fracture microfracture mono-fracture multifracture nanofracture nightstick fracture nonfracture oblique fracture open fracture pilon fracture postfracture Pott's fracture prefracture pseudofracture Rolando fracture Salter-Harris fracture simple fracture Smith's fracture stress fracture tracheal fracture vowel fracture refracture fractile fracturable nonfracturing

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