Meaning

noun breaking of hard tissue such as bone

noun (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

noun the act of cracking something

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Latin frangō Latin frāctūrus Latin frāctūrader. Old French fracturebor. Middle English fracture English fracture From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin frāctūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle frāctus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also…

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