Fracture

Definition: Fracture

Fracture

Noun

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

2. (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".

3. The act of cracking something.

Verb

1. Violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language".

2. Interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power".

3. Break into pieces; "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle".

4. Become fractured: "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe".

5. Break, as of a bone: "She broke her clavicle".

6. Fracture a bone of: "I broke my foot while playing hockey".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fracture" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Environment

Food & Agriculture

Geography

Geological

Hydrologic

Metallurgy

Mining

Public Administration

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Synonyms: Fracture

Discontinuity

Noun: discontinuity; disjunction; anacoluthon; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap; (interval); solution of continuity, caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission; alternation; (periodicity); dropping fire.

Disjunction

Separation; parting; Verb: circumcision; detachment, segregation; divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption; elision; caesura, break, fracture,

Tenacity

Verb: be tenacious. Adjective: resist fracture.

Crosswords: Fracture

French (breaking, fracture).

That shockwave created a subspace fracture. (Sealab 2021; writing credit: John J. Miller; Adam Reed)

I know that if a man has a compound fracture and a headache, you put on a tourniquet before you give him an aspirin (Wake Me When It's Over; writing credit: Richard L. Breen; Howard Singer)

Fracture my spine, (The Masochism Tango; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

La Fracture du myocarde (1990)

Fracture (1977)

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References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Shoulder Fracture (reference)

• The World Market for Orthopedic Appliances, Crutches, Surgical Belts, Fracture Appliances, Artificial Body Parts, Hearing Aids, and Pacemakers: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Analytical Fracture Mechanics (reference)

• Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials (reference)

• Fracture Management for Primary Care (reference)

• Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition (reference)

• Handbook of Small Animal Orthopedics and Fracture Repair (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Fatigue & Fracture Of Engineering Materials & Structures (reference)

• Engineering Fracture Mechanics (reference)

• Theoretical And Applied Fracture Mechanics (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hip Fracture (reference)

• Wrist Fracture (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Fracture (reference)

• The Jefferson Fracture (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Line graph showing rate of hospitalization for hip fracture among adults aged 65 years and older, by sex--United States, 1988-1996. Credit: CDC.

The Mendocino Escarpment The initial indication of the great seafloor fracture zones Surveyed by GUIDE between 1935-1938. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Early magnetic profiles from PIONEER surveys Shows repeating pattern and offset at Mendocino Fracture Zone Serendipitous that survey lines primarily east-west Otherwise magnetic striping would not have showed clearly. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

View of typical hexagonal cooling fracture pattern of the columnar basalt looking south across the flood channels. Credit: Mike Sweeney.

Typical hezagoanl cooling fracture pattern of the columnar baslat seen at Sprague during the Public Lands Day tour. Credit: Mike Sweeney.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 9, Chateauroux, France. : Fracture x-ray room. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Base Hospital No. 1. Vichy, France : Fracture Ward. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Ancient Hindu Fracture Bed]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Oh!... la belle, la splendide fracture... quel dommage de la réduire! / Par Draner. [i.e. Jules Renard]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Reduction for fracture of spine]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Health

A skull fracture occurs when the bone of the skull cracks or breaks. (references)

Early stages of ORN without fracture or fistulae may be cured by HBO alone. (references)

Studies on the effect of dietary calcium on bone mass and fracture incidence. (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

They forced Javangwe to lie prostrate and beat him all over his body; he sustained multiple injuries to the head, ears, and left leg, and suffered a fracture of his left hand. (references)

Syria

Former prisoners and detainees report that torture methods include administering electrical shocks; pulling out fingernails; forcing objects into the rectum; beating, sometimes while the victim is suspended from the ceiling; hyperextending the spine; and using a chair that bends backwards to asphyxiate the victim or fracture the victim's spine. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Fracture

Expressions using "fracture": axle fracture ♦ Bennett fracture ♦ boxer's fracture ♦ brash fracture ♦ brittle fracture ♦ carroty fracture ♦ chip fracture ♦ closed fracture ♦ Colles fracture ♦ Colles' Fracture ♦ comminuted fracture ♦ compaund fracture ♦ complete fracture ♦ Complicated fracture ♦ compound fracture ♦ compression fracture ♦ cup fracture ♦ depressed fracture ♦ displaced fracture ♦ fatigue fracture ♦ Fracture Fixation ♦ Fracture Healing ♦ fracture of the base of the scull ♦ greenstick fracture ♦ impacted fracture ♦ incomplete fracture ♦ Jefferson fracture ♦ Monteggia's Fracture ♦ open fracture ♦ pathologic fracture ♦ potts fracture ♦ Pott's fracture ♦ resist fracture ♦ simple fracture ♦ Smith fracture ♦ sprain fracture ♦ stress fracture. Additional references.

Beginning with "fracture": fracture-hosted.

Ending with "fracture": freeze-fracture.

Afrikaans

beenbreuk (fracture of the leg). (various references)

Albanian

thyerje (break, breakage, breaking, breakup, deflection, demolition, milling, refraction, roughness, rupture, split, stamping, transgression, violation), thyej (bend, break, break to pieces, cash, change, crack up, demolish, fold, hurt, mammock, maul, mill, refract, rupture, shatter, shiver, sliver, smash, snap, Spall, split, stamp, transgress, worst, wreck), gërricje (burst, gap, rupture, scrape, scratch, split), çarje (break, breaking, cleavage, cleft, cut, dissection, fissure, gap, gulf, incision, opening, orifice, rent, rift, slash, split, splitting, wedge). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسر العظم, ‏كسر (breach, break, breakage, breaking, crash, crush, defeat, double, fold, fraction, fracturing, infringe, pleat, rout, shatter, shattering, smash, smashing, tuck, vanquish, violate), ‏مزق (cut up, disrupt, jag, lacerate, pull apart, pull to pieces, quarter, rend, rent, rip, rip apart, rive, rupture, sever, shred, tatter, tear, tear to pieces, tear up, unrip, unseam), ‏نتيجة الكسر, ‏تمزق النسيج, ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist). (various references)

Bulgarian 

счупване (fraction, smash), счупвам (bust, pip, smash, snap), строшаване (fraction, milling), строшавам (smash), разчупване, чупя (break), фрактура, лом (bar, lever, pinch). (various references)

Chinese 

破裂 (burst). (various references)

Czech

zlomenina (break). (various references)

Danish

fraktur (black-letter, Gothic, wrongly knit fracture). (various references)

Dutch

breuk (fraction), gotisch lettertype, fractuur (Church text, German text). (various references)

Esperanto

frakturo. (various references)

Farsi 

گسیختن (Cut, Rupture, Snap, Tear), ترک (Abandonment, Chap, Clef, Crack, Craze, Interstice, Proscription, Quit, Renunciation, Turkish), انکسار (Refract, Refraction), شکستن (Break, Chop, Cleave, Crackle, Disobey, Fraction, Infract, Infraction, Nick, Refract, Shatter, Smite, Stave, Violate), شکستگی (Fraction, Nick), شکست (Break, Breakage, Refraction, Reverse, Setback, Washout), شکافتن (Chink, Cleave, Excision, Pierce, Rift, Rip, Rive, Slat, Slit, Split), شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Crack, Craze, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Notch, Overture, Rake, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slash, Slit, Slither, Split, Suture). (various references)

Finnish

murtuma (breach, break). (various references)

French

fracture, cassure (fraction). (various references)

German

Bruch (breach, breaching, break, breakage, breaking, burst, crack, fault, fold, fraction, fragment, hernia, infringement, lump, piece, quarry, rupture, split, violation), fraktur (gothic print), Knochenbruch (wrongly knit fracture). (various references)

Greek 

κάταγμα, σπάζω (break, break up, bust, crack, go bust, smash, snap), θλάση (breakage, rupture). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשבור (break, destroy, rend, ruin, shatter to pieces, snap), לסדוק (chap, crack, fissure, split), שבר (break, breakage, breaking, collapse, crisis, failure, mishap, rupture, splinter), סדק (chap, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, fissure, flaw, rift, slit, split). (various references)

Hungarian

vetődés (check, dislocation, drift, fault, puckering), törés (break, breakage, breaking, chip, comminution, crack, cracking, discontinuity, fault, flaw, fraction, gall, rift in the lute, rift within the lute, rupture, snap, trauma), csonttörés (broken bone). (various references)

Indonesian

retakan (crack), rekahan, keretakan (break, crack). (various references)

Italian

frattura (break, breaking, fraction, fractiousness, hernia, quotient, rupture). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

リサジューの図形 (Lissajous's figure, list, list broker, listing, lithograph, lizard, lizardman, lysine, reconstruction, reject, reserve, restart, restore, restructure, restructuring, result, resurrection, RISC, risk, risk control, risk factor, risk finance, squirrel, wrist, wristband). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リス (lithograph, squirrel). (various references)

Korean 

분쇄 (Comminuting, Crushing, Pulverizing, smash, smashing). (various references)

Manx

scoltey (analysis, beanfeast; skive, blow out, burst, bursting, chop up, cleavage; heavy meal, cleave, cleft, crack, crack; feed, cracking, crevasse, disunion, fission, fissure, gutting, hew, rend, scission, slit, slitting, sliver, slot, split, tuck in; gut; fault, vent, venting), scaaney (chink, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure; mirror, flaw, interstice, rend), brishey (bankrupt, bankruptcy, break, breakage, burst, cash, cashier, change money, contravention, crash, decode, depose, disbar, dismiss, dismissal, failure, go back, infringement, interrupt, interruption, pick, raise, repulse, ruin, small change, stump, violation, wane). (various references)

Norwegian

brudd (encroachment). (various references)

Pig Latin

acturefray.(various references)

Portuguese

ruptura (abruption, blowout, breach, break, breakage, burst, bursting, disruption, rip, rupture, severance, snap), rotura (rent, rupture), fratura (breach, break, breakage, breaking, cracking, rift), fractura (break, failure, rock failure). (various references)

Romanian

fracturã (rupture, split), fractura (break, splinter), frânge (break, break down, defeat, snap). (various references)

Russian 

сломать (break down, bring down), разрыв (abruption, break, breaking, breakup, bursitis, burst, disruption, disturbance, divorcement, gap, jump, laceration, rip, rupture, severance, split, tear, tearing), фрактура, трещина (cavity, chap, check, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, fissure, flaw, joint, rent, rift, slit, split, vug), надломить, надлом, ломать перелом, ломать (break, break down, destroy, mammock), перелом (crisis, rupture, turning-point), излом (dog leg, dog-leg, fissure). (various references)

Scottish

bris (break). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

fraktura, slomiti (break, crack, crush, destroy, shatter), slom (break, breakdown, collapse, debacle, labefaction, ruin, wreck), prelom (break, makeup, paging), polomiti (break), lomiti (break, crack). (various references)

Spanish

fractura (breakage). (various references)

Swedish

brott (breach, breaking, crime, leak, offence, offense, rupture, violation), bryta (be refracted, break, break open, cut off, diverge, fold, infract, infringe, kill, mine, modify, quarry, refract, violate), benbrott. (various references)

Thai

แตก (break, check), ทำให้แตก (breach), รอยแตก (breach, breakage, fissure). (various references)

Turkish

kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), kırma (break, breakage, breaking, crossbred, half breed, hybrid, injury, laceration, mestizo, mongrel, pleat, unblooded, underbred), kırılmak (be broken, be hurt, be offended, be piqued at, break, break off, chip, crash, crush, explode, go to pieces, offend, Rive, shatter, sink, snap), kırılma (break, breakage, breaking, offence, offense, refracting, refraction, refractive, rupture, smash, split), kırık (break, broken, cracked, fractured, split), çatlamak (burst, chap, cleave, crack, craze, dehisce, die of exhaustion, split, spring), çatlak (balmy, barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cuckoo, disordered, fault, fissure, flaw, fractured, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nut, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, potty, queer, queer in the head, rift, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaken, shaky, split, spring, touched). (various references)

Turkmen 

gдdik (breach). (various references)

Ukrainian

ламатися (smash), ламати (break, circumvent, outbreak, smash), перелом (cataclysm, rupture, veer, veering). (various references)

gaz. (various references)

confractione, fractura, ruptura. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fracture": fractured, fractures. (additional references)

Words ending with "fracture": postfracture. (additional references)

Words containing "fracture": postfractures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fracture" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: factura, Fakhuri, farctur, fractlure, fractory, frac-ture, fraktur, frasture, fratri, racture. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: facture, farceur, fractur, furcate, refract.

-2 letters: acuter, carter, crater, curare, curate, curter, farcer, faucet, frater, rafter, tracer.

-3 letters: acute, after, carer, caret, carte, cater, craft, crate, cruet, crura, curer, curet, cuter, eruct, facer, facet, farce, farer, feuar, racer, rater, react, recta, recur, recut, tarre, terra, trace, truce, truer, urare, urate.

-4 letters: acre, cafe, care.

+1 letter: fractured, fractures.

+2 letters: trifurcate.

+3 letters: furtherance, prefectural, trifurcated, trifurcates.

+4 letters: characterful, furtherances, manufacturer, postfracture, ultracareful.

+5 letters: manufacturers, postfractures, remanufacture.