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Meaning of fracture

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  fracture
      n 1: breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty
           fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
           [syn: {fracture}, {break}]
      2: (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" [syn: {fault}, {faulting},
         {geological fault}, {shift}, {fracture}, {break}]
      3: the act of cracking something [syn: {fracture}, {crack},
         {cracking}]
      v 1: violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the
           language"
      2: interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power"
      3: break into pieces; "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"
      4: become fractured; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the
         iron pipe"
      5: break (a bone); "She broke her clavicle"
      6: fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey"
         [syn: {fracture}, {break}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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