fracture

See also: fracturé

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæk.tʃɘ/
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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

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

• Afrikaans: breuk, fraksie
• Arabic: كسر, انكسار
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: счупване (bg) n (sčupvane), фрактура (bg) f (fraktura)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 骨折 (zh) (gǔzhé)

• Czech: zlomenina f
• Dutch: breuk (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: murtuma (fi)
• French: fracture (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Knochenbruch (de) m, Bruch (de) m, Fraktur (de) f
• Greek: κάταγμα (el) n (kátagma), θλάση (el) f (thlási)
• Italian: frattura (it)
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• Japanese: 骨折 (ja) (こっせつ, kossetsu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: brishey m
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fraktur m

  Nynorsk: fraktur m

• Papiamentu: breuk
• Portuguese: fratura (pt) f
• Romanian: fractură (ro) f, fracturare f, rupere (ro) f
• Russian: перело́м (ru) m (perelóm)
• Spanish: fractura (es) f
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kırık (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: bomabrek (vo)
• West Frisian: brek

(geology) fault

• Bulgarian: цепнатина (bg) f (cepnatina), лом m (lom)
• Dutch: Verwerfung
• Finnish: murros
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• Greek: θραύση (el) f (thráfsi), σπάσιμο (el) n (spásimo)
• Portuguese: falha (pt) f

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

• Arabic: يكسر, ينكسر
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: (transitive) ламаць impf (lamác’), зламаць pf (zlamác’); (intransitive) ламацца impf (lamácca), зламацца pf (zlamácca)
• Bulgarian: чупя (bg) (čupja), троша (bg) (troša)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: haljeta (fi), murtua (fi)
• Greek: θραύω (el) (thrávo), σπάω (el) (spáo)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
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• Portuguese: fraturar (pt)
• Romanian: fractura (ro)
• Russian: (transitive) лома́ть (ru) impf (lomátʹ), слома́ть (ru) pf (slomátʹ); (intransitive) лома́ться (ru) impf (lomátʹsja), слома́ться (ru) pf (slomátʹsja)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: (transitive) ламати impf (lamáty), зламати pf (zlamáty); (intransitive) ламатися impf (lamátysja), зламатися pf (zlamátysja)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

External links

• “fracture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “fracture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fractūra.

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Noun

fracture f (plural fractures)

1. fracture

External links

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

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) fractūre

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) vocative masculine singular of fractūrus

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Spanish

Verb

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.