Fracture

Fracture - Other Definitions

• (n.) The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
  
  
• (n.) The breaking of a bone.
  
  
• (n.) The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
  
  
• (v. t.) To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.