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1fracture — fracturable, adj. fractural, adj. fracturer, n. /frak cheuhr/, n., v., fractured, fracturing. n. 1. the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Cf. comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture,… …
2fracture — 1. To break. 2. A break, especially the breaking of a bone or cartilage. [L. fractura, a break] apophysial f. separation of apophysis from bone. articular f. a f. involving the joint …
3fracture — /ˈfræktʃə / (say frakchuh) noun 1. the breaking of a bone, cartilage, etc., or the resulting condition (in a bone, called a simple fracture when the broken bone does not pierce the skin and a compound fracture when either the broken bone pierces… …
4fracture — fractures are often described by the appearance of the surface of the break in a piece of steel. Crystalline is bright and glittering, failure having developed along the cleavage planes of individual crystals and can be typical of brittle… …
5fracture — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin fractura, from fractus Date: 15th century 1. the result of fracturing ; break 2. a. the act or process of breaking or the state of being broken; especially the breaking of hard tissue (as bone) b. the …
6fracture — frac•ture [[t]ˈfræk tʃər[/t]] n. v. tured, tur•ing 1) pat the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition Compare compound fracture 2) the act of breaking or the state of being broken 3) a break; split 4) the… …
7fracture — n. & v. n. 1 a breakage or breaking, esp. of a bone or cartilage. b the result of breaking; a crack or split. 2 the surface appearance of a freshly broken rock or mineral. 3 Linguistics a the substitution of a diphthong for a simple vowel owing… …
8Burst fracture — A burst fracture is a type of traumatic spinal injury in which a vertebra breaks from a high energy axial load, with pieces of the vertebra shattering into surrounding tissues and sometimes the spinal canal [… …
9woody fracture — a fracture that is fibrous or woody in appearance due to the elongation of the individual grains. This may be accentuated by the presence of slag or by a banded structure. It is grey and dull and ischaracteristic of ductile but non homogeneous… …
10iron processing — Introduction use of a smelting process to turn the ore into a form from which products can be fashioned. Included in this article also is a discussion of the mining of iron and of its preparation for smelting. Iron (Fe) is a… …
