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fracture (n.)

early 15c., "a breaking of a bone," from Old French fracture (14c.) and directly from Latin fractura "a breach, break, cleft," from fractus, past participle of frangere "to break" (from PIE root *bhreg- "to break"). As "a broken surface" from 1794.

fracture (v.)

"cause a fracture in" (transitive), 1610s (implied in fractured), from fracture (n.). Intransitive meaning "become fractured" is from 1830. Related: Fracturing.

Entries linking to fracture

*bhreg- 

Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to break."

It forms all or part of: anfractuous; Brabant; bracken; brake (n.1) "stopping device for a wheel;" brake (n.2) "kind of fern;" brash; breach; break; breccia; breeches; brioche; chamfer; defray; diffraction; fractal; fraction; fractious; fracture; fragile; fragility; fragment; frail; frangible; infraction; infringe; irrefragable; irrefrangible; naufragous; ossifrage; refract; refraction; refrain (n.); refrangible; sassafras; saxifrage; suffragan; suffrage.

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit (giri)-bhraj "breaking-forth (out of the mountains);" Latin frangere "to break (something) in pieces, shatter, fracture;" Lithuanian braškėti "crash, crack;" Old Irish braigim "break wind;" Gothic brikan, Old English brecan "to break."

fraktur (n.)
1886, Fractur, "German black-lettering," from German Fraktur "black-letter, Gothic type," also "a fracture, a break," from Latin fractura (see fracture (n.)). So called from its angular, "broken" letters. The style was common in German printing from c. 1540 and thence was transferred to Pennsylvania German arts that incorporate the lettering.

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Definitions of fracture
1
fracture (v.)
violate or abuse;
This writer really fractures the language
fracture (v.)
interrupt, break, or destroy;
fracture the balance of power
fracture (v.)
break into pieces;
The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle
fracture (v.)
become fractured;
The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe
fracture (v.)
break (a bone);
fracture (v.)
fracture a bone of;
Synonyms: break
2
fracture (n.)
breaking of hard tissue such as bone;
it was a nasty fracture
Synonyms: break
fracture (n.)
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;
Synonyms: fault / faulting / geological fault / shift / break
fracture (n.)
the act of cracking something;
Synonyms: crack / cracking
From wordnet.princeton.edu

Dictionary entries near fracture

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fractal

fraction

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fractious

fracture

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fragile

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fragmentary

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