Definitions for fracture
Overview of noun fracture
The noun fracture has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. fracture, break
(breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall")
2. fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break
((geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust")
3. fracture, crack, cracking
(the act of cracking something)
Overview of verb fracture
The verb fracture has 6 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) fracture
(violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language")
2. fracture
(interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power")
3. fracture
(break into pieces; "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle")
4. fracture
(become fractured; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe")
5. fracture
(break (a bone); "She broke her clavicle")
6. fracture, break
(fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey")
