FRACTURE


Meaning of FRACTURE in English

■ noun

1》 a crack or break, especially in a bone or a rock stratum.

↘the cracking or breaking of a hard object or material.

↘the shape of the surface formed by a freshly broken rock or mineral.

2》 Phonetics the replacement of a simple vowel by a diphthong owing to the influence of a following sound, typically a consonant.

■ verb break or cause to break.

↘(of a group) break up or fragment.

Origin

ME: from Fr., or from L. fractura , from frangere 'to break'.

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