noun
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An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
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A break in bone or cartilage.
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A fault or crack in a rock.
verb
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To break, or cause something to break.
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To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.
Examples of fracture in a Sentence
It is only a fracture, but she's going to have to stay off it for six weeks.
The fracture is conchoidal, and the material is brittle.
On fracture these spherical growths are found to be radiated in structure.
The Red Sea is formed by a line of fracture, probably dating from Pliocene times, crossing the centre of a dome of Archean rocks, on both flanks of which, in Egypt and Arabia., rest Secondary and Tertiary deposits.
Bismuth is a very brittle metal with a white crystalline fracture and a characteristic reddish-white colour.
In consequence of this composite formation, amethyst is apt to break with a rippled fracture, or to show "thumb markings," and the intersection of two sets of curved ripples may produce on the fractured surface a pattern something like that of "engine turning."
In colour they vary from ash-grey to black, and their fracture is conchoidal.
The escape of zoospores is effected by the degeneration of the sporangial wall (Chaetophora), or by a pore (Cladophora), a slit (Pediastrum), or a circular fracture (Oedogonium).
The wire gives the glass great advantages in the event of fracture from a blow or from fire, but owing to the difference in thermal expansion between wire and glass, there is a strong tendency for such " wired glass " to crack spontaneously.
Wrought iron and mild steel may be made to show a short and crystalline fracture by a sudden application of stress, while if drawn asunder slowly they develop the silky, fibrous appearance.
The chemical composition of typical obsidians is shown by the following analyses Obsidian, when broken, shows a conchoidal fracture, like that of glass, and yields sharp-edged fragments, which have been used in many localities as arrow-points, spear-heads, knives and razors.
The transverse fracture has a resinous appearance with white streaks; the flavour is bitter and aromatic, and the odour characteristic. It consists of a mixture of resin, gum and essential oil, the resin being present to the extent of 25 to 40%, with 21to 8% of the oil, myrrhol, to which the odour is due.
Hence the weakness and the dark-grey fracture of this iron, and hence, by brushing this fracture with a wire brush and so detaching these loosely clinging flakes of graphite, the colour can be changed nearly to the very light-grey of pure iron.
This is effected by stirring the molten metal with a pole of green wood (" poling "); the products which arise from the combustion and distillation of the wood reduce the oxide to metal, and if the operation be properly conducted " tough-pitch " copper, soft, malleable and exhibiting a lustrous silky fracture, is obtained.
Unfortunately, on the evening of a reception dinner given in his honour, Emin met with an accident which resulted in fracture of the skull.
He fell from his horse and sustained a compound fracture of his tibia.
The surface of the vessel may be hard, but the vessel is liable to fracture on receiving a trifling shock.
At this neck-like zone the muscles are absent, and across it falls the line of fracture when the proglottis separates from its fellows.
Compound gulfs are formed seawards by fracture and landwards by the overflowing of depressed land, e.g.
Thus, prior exposure to a temperature materially above Ac 3 coarsens the structure of most steel, in the sense of giving it, when cold a coarse fracture, and enlarging the grains of pearlite, &c., later found in the slowly cooled metal.
In case of direct puddling and the use of larger charges this conservatism has some foundation, because the established custom of allowing the cast iron to solidify gives a better opportunity of examining its fracture, and thus of rejecting unsuitable iron, than is afforded in direct puddling.
The mineral is also frequently found massive, with a coarse or fine granular structure and a crystalline fracture; sometimes it occurs as a soft, white, amorphous deposit resembling artificially precipitated zinc sulphide.
There it was - a clean fracture of the left clavicle.
When this has been done an electrical test is applied, and if the original fracture is between ship and shore the heaving in of cable will continue until the end comes on board.
The product has a brilliant white fracture, a specific gravity of 4.87, very friable, but harder than quartz or steel.
By modern mineralogists the name chalcedony is restricted to those kinds of silica which occur not in distinct crystals like ordinary quartz, but in concretionary, mammillated or stalactitic forms, which break with a fine splintery fracture, and display a delicate fibrous structure.
These earthquake shocks have two distinct characteristics, a slight vibration, sometimes almost imperceptible, called a temblor, generally occurring at frequent intervals, and a violent horizontal or rotary vibration, or motion, also repeated at frequent intervals, called a terremoto, which is caused by a fracture or displacement of the earth's strata at some particular point, and often results in considerable damage.
Like other slipper bedpans (also called fracture bedpans) it is wedge shaped, rising in depth from the rear to the front.
One dog was observed to have an infected carpus and elbow and appeared to have a very painful fracture.
An X ray of the left shoulder confirmed a midshaft clavicle fracture.
A steel wire coat hanger could be used to show brittle fracture after ' working ' in the plastic stage.
The Doctor received a compound fracture whilst out fishing on 24th December 1847 at Hemsley near York.
It was taken to the rehabilitation aviary at Gigrin but was found to have a compound fracture of the humerus.
The point of maximum convexity is a frequent site of tension fracture, with release of slab avalanches.
The type of internal fixation used is determined by the complexity of the fracture.
You could have a fracture.
Note how the angle of the fracture surfaces mimics the angle of the slip planes in the deformed crystal.
The bite had left a sub-circular depressed fracture about 6mm across on the dorsal surface of the shaft, just above the distal epiphysis.
A 34 year old man sustained an open fracture of the distal femur with bone loss.
She sustained a fracture to her right ankle and a fracture to her right fibula.
They therefore used the intact fibula to simulate a repaired fibular fracture.
Biodegradable implants have been used in other sites particularly in the area of fracture fixation.
The Great Shield was fatally flawed; in time the tiny fracture would grow into a gaping wound.
August at 16.00 An 11-year-old girl sustained an ankle fracture.
I also feel that in order to minimize the risk of iatrogenic femoral shaft fracture, a full trial reduction should be avoided.
None of the five interventions has been shown to reduce the risk of non-vertebral fracture in women unselected for low BMD.
We report a rare case of an avulsion fracture of the calcaneus.
Last year I had a slight ankle fracture, too.
The fact that functional bracing does not immobilize the joints adjacent to the fracture makes early restoration of motion possible.
A lumbar fracture is a break in the lumbar vertebrae.