fracto-
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French fracto-, from Latin frāctus (“broken”).[1]
Prefix
[edit]fracto-
- Forming terms relating to the fracture or breaking of something.
- fracto- + emission → fractoemission (“the generation of charge through the breakup of rock particles”)
Derived terms
[edit]Category English terms prefixed with fracto- not found
References
[edit]- ^ “fracto-, comb. form”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
