Fracture of an aluminumcrank arm of a bicycle, where Bright=brittle fracture , Dark=fatigue fracture . Compare healthy bone with different types of fractures: FromMiddle English fracture Old French fracture Latin fractūra ( “ a breach, fracture, cleft ” ) , fromfrangere ( “ to break ” ) , past participlefractus Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- break fraction Doublet offraktur
fracture (plural fractures
An instance ofbreaking , a place where something hasbroken . ( medicine ) bone orcartilage .( geology ) fault orcrack in arock .act of breaking, or something broken
Afrikaans:breuk (af) ,fraksie Arabic:كسر (ar) ,انكسار Armenian:please add this translation if you can Bulgarian:счупване (bg) n ( sčupvane ) ,фрактура (bg) f ( fraktura ) Catalan: fractura (ca) f Czech: zlomenina (cs) f Danish: brud (da) n , fraktur c Dutch: breuk (nl) f , fractuur (nl) f Esperanto: rompo ,frakturo Finnish:murtuma (fi) ,särö (fi) ,murtuminen (fi) French:fracture (fr) f Galician: fractura f Georgian:please add this translation if you can German: Knochenbruch (de) m , Bruch (de) m , Fraktur (de) f Greek: κάταγμα (el) n ( kátagma ) ,θλάση (el) f ( thlási ) Italian: frattura (it) Khmer:ការបាក់ឆ្អឹង ( kaa-bak chʼəng ) Latin:fractūrā (la) f Manx: brishey m Mongolian:please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: fraktur m Nynorsk: fraktur m Papiamentu: breuk Polish:złamanie (pl) n , pęknięcie (pl) n Portuguese: fratura (pt) f Romanian: fractură (ro) f , fracturare f , rupere (ro) f Russian: перело́м (ru) m ( perelóm ) Spanish: fractura (es) f Swedish: brott (sv) n Thai:please add this translation if you can Turkish: kırık (tr) Vietnamese:please add this translation if you can Volapük:bomabrek (vo) Welsh:toriad (cy) m West Frisian: brek Zazaki:şıkıte
(medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage
fracture (third-person singular simple present fractures present participle fracturing simple past and past participle fractured
( ambitransitive ) break , or cause something to break.( transitive , slang ) amuse (a person) greatly; tosplit someone's sides .2013 Pine Box for a Pin-Up :“Youfracture me, Frankie,” Patsy said. “You should take that act on the road. Howsabout now?” This is the way it would go whenever I showed up at Patsy's, a dual of digs and wisecracks with the disapproving groans of those within earshot.
break
Arabic:يكسر ينكسر Armenian:please add this translation if you can Belarusian:( transitive ) лама́ць impf ( lamácʹ ) ,злама́ць pf ( zlamácʹ ) ;( intransitive ) лама́цца impf ( lamácca ) ,злама́цца pf ( zlamácca ) Bulgarian: чупя (bg) ( čupja ) ,троша (bg) ( troša ) Catalan:fracturar (ca) Danish:( transitive ) brække (da) ,( transitive ) sprænge ( intransitive ) sprænges Esperanto:rompi (eo) ( transitive ) ,rompiĝi ( intransitive ) Finnish:haljeta (fi) ,murtua (fi) ,rikkoa (fi) ,murtaa (fi) ,hajottaa (fi) ,särkeä (fi) French:fracturer (fr) Galician:fracturar (gl) Greek:θραύω (el) ( thrávo ) ,σπάω (el) ( spáo ) Khmer:បាក់ (km) ( bak ) Korean:부러지다 (ko) ( bureojida ) Mongolian:please add this translation if you can Ottoman Turkish:قیرمق ( kırmak ) Portuguese:fraturar (pt) Romanian:fractura (ro) Russian:( transitive ) лома́ть (ru) impf ( lomátʹ ) ,слома́ть (ru) pf ( slomátʹ ) ;( intransitive ) лома́ться (ru) impf ( lomátʹsja ) ,слома́ться (ru) pf ( slomátʹsja ) Spanish: fracturar (es) Thai:please add this translation if you can Ukrainian:( transitive ) лама́ти impf ( lamáty ) ,злама́ти pf ( zlamáty ) ;( intransitive ) лама́тися impf ( lamátysja ) ,злама́тися pf ( zlamátysja ) Vietnamese:please add this translation if you can Welsh: torri (cy) Zazaki:şıkınen
“fracture ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “fracture ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. ,→OCLC Inherited fromMiddle French fracture Old French fracture Latin fractūra fraiture frainture fraindre
fracture f (plural fractures
fracture frāctūre
vocative masculine singular offrāctūrus fracture
inflection offracturar first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative fracture
inflection offracturar first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative 
