fracture

See also fracturé

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɹæk.tʃɘ/

Noun

fracture (plural fractures)

1. the act of breaking, or something that has broken, especially that in bone or cartilage
2. (geology) a fault or crack in a rock

Derived terms

• compound fracture
• fracture mechanics
• greenstick fracture
• hairline fracture
• incomplete fracture
• Jones fracture
• simple fracture
• Smith's fracture
• stress fracture
• tracheal fracture
• vowel fracture

Related terms

• fractal
• fraction
• fragment

Translations

act of breaking, or something broken

Chinese: Mandarin: 骨折 (zh) (gǔzhé) Czech: zlomenina (cs) f. Dutch: breuk (nl) Finnish: murtuma (fi) French: fracture (fr) f. German: Knochenbruch (de) m., Bruch (de) m., Fraktur (de) f. Japanese: 骨折 (ja) (こっせつ, kossetsu)

Manx: brishey (gv) m. Papiamentu: breuk Romanian: fractură (ro) f. Russian: перелом (ru) (perelóm) m. Spanish: fractura (es) f. Turkish: kırık (tr) Volapük: bomabrek (vo)

(geology) fault

Dutch: Verwerfung (nl)

Verb

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

1. to break, or cause something to break

Translations

break

Finnish: haljeta (fi), murtua (fi)

Romanian: fractura (ro)

External links

• fracture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• fracture in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fractūra.

Pronunciation

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Noun

fracture f. (plural fractures)

1. fracture

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Latin

Participle

fractūre

1. vocative masculine singular of fractūrus

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Spanish

Verb

fracture (infinitive fracturar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fracturar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fracturar.