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.

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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English frock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁak/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

frac m (plural fracs)

1. white tie and tails

Further reading

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

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Interlingue

Noun

1. tailcoat

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Italian

Noun

frac m (uncountable)

1. morning dress, tailcoat, white tie and tails

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wrakkā; compare Welsh gwraig and Breton gwreg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frak/

Noun

frac f

1. woman

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• banscál
• ben

Mutation

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾaɡ/ [ˈfɾaɣ̞]

Noun

frac m (plural fraques)

1. tailcoat