Noun: fracture
| Singular | fracture |
| Plural | fractures |
Sample Sentences
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Hall found the immediate cause at Rickerscote to have been the complete fracture of an axle on STS 53241, the freight train's ninth wagon. The fracture had been caused by fatigue initiated by corrosion pitting on the axle surface. [2026 March 18, Greg Morse, “1996 crash driving freight reforms”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 51:]
Nouns inflected like fracture
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-né-
4. Latin frangō
5. Latin frāctūrus
6. Latin frāctūrader.
7. Old French fracturebor.
8. Middle English fracture
9. English fracture
10. From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin frāctūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle frāctus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur. See: Middle English Nouns '
fracture', Latin Nouns '
frāctūra'.
Verbs referencing "fracture"
English Nouns
break, English Nouns
fraktur.