frac

English

Alternative forms

• frack

Etymology 1

From English hydrofracking.

Verb

frac (third-person singular simple present fracs, present participle fraccing, simple past and past participle fracced)

1. (oil industry) To use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing)
   • 2011, Arrow, “Fraccing”, in Arrow Energy‎^[1] (html), retrieved 2012-01-21:

     To date, Arrow has only fracced about 2.5 percent of its wells ...

Adjective

frac

1. (oil industry) Relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing
   • 2012 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes‎^[2]:

     More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago.

   • 2012 January 26, Jonathan Fahey, “No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking'”, in Yahoo News‎^[3]:

     The drilling industry has generally spelled the word without a "K," using terms like "frac job" or "frac fluid."

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of frac job.

Noun

frac (plural fracs)

1. (oil industry) Frac job.
   • 1976, United States. Energy Research and Development Administration, Bartlesville Energy Technology Center, United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Oil, Gas, and Shale Technology, United States. Division of Oil, Gas, Shale, and In Situ Technology, United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Fossil Fuel Extraction, “NATURAL BUTTES UNIT, UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MASSIVE HYDRAULIC FRACTURING DEMONSTRATION”, in Contracts for cooperative and supporting research on enhanced oil and gas recovery and improved drilling methods‎^[4], volume 7-10:

     A program summary showing the type and volume of fluid and the size and amount of sand that is planned for the eight fracs is shown in table 1.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of fracture.

Noun

frac (plural fracs)

1. Fracture.
2. Fracturing.

Etymology 4

Abbreviation of fraction.

Noun

frac (plural fracs)

1. Fraction
2. Fractioning

Derived terms

• frac job
• frac spread

Anagrams

• FARC, RCAF

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French

Etymology

From English frock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁak/

• Audio

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Noun

frac m (plural fracs)

1. white tie and tails

Further reading

• “frac” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Interlingue

Noun

frac (plural fracs)

1. tailcoat

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Italian

Etymology

From French frac

Noun

frac m (invariable)

1. morning dress, tailcoat, white tie and tails

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wrakkā, probably related to *grúac (“hair”); for similar sense development, see Scottish Gaelic gruagach (“maiden, woman”), which evolved from gruag, as unmarried women did not cover their hair.

Compare Welsh gwraig and Breton gwreg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frak/

Noun

frac f

1. woman

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fracL	fraicL	fracaH
Vocative	fracL	fraicL	fracaH
Accusative	fraicN	fraicL	fracaH
Genitive	fraiceH	fracL	fracN
Dative	fraicL	fracaib	fracaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

• banscál
• ben

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
frac	ḟrac	frac pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Spanish

Etymology

From French frac

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾak/

Noun

frac m (plural fracs or fraques)

1. tailcoat