fracture

From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin fractūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæk.tjə/
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃɚ/

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fracture (plural fractures)

1. An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
2. (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
3. (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.

• fractal
• fraction
• fragment

fracture (third-person singular simple present fractures, present participle fracturing, simple past and past participle fractured)

1. (ambitransitive) To break, or cause something to break.
2. (transitive, slang) To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.
   • 2013, Frank De Blase, Pine Box for a Pin-Up:

     “You fracture me, Frankie,” Patsy said. “You should take that act on the road. Howsabout now?” This is the way it would go whenever I showed up at Patsy's, a dual of digs and wisecracks with the disapproving groans of those within earshot.

• “fracture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fracture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Inherited from Middle French fracture, from late Old French fracture, borrowed from Latin fractūra. Compare the inherited Old French fraiture, and the frainture (influenced by fraindre).

• IPA^(key): /fʁak.tyʁ/

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fracture f (plural fractures)

1. fracture

• fracture ouverte

• fraction

• → Romanian: fractură

• “fracture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

frāctūre

1. vocative masculine singular of frāctūrus

fracture

1. inflection of fracturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

fracture

1. inflection of fracturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative