Usually means: Break or crack in material.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. fracture: Merriam-Webster
  2. fracture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fracture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fracture: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fracture: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fracture, fracture: Wordnik
  7. fracture: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fracture: Wiktionary
  9. fracture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fracture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fracture: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fracture: Dictionary.com
  13. fracture (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fracture: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fracture (Fringe), Fracture (bone), Fracture (company), Fracture (disambiguation), Fracture (geology), Fracture (mineralogy), Fracture (video game), Fracture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fracture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fracture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fracture: Rhymezone
  19. fracture, fracture (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fracture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fracture: FreeDictionary.org
  22. fracture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fracture: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. fracture: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. fracture: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fracture: Encyclopedia

Medicine (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. fracture: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fracture: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Fracture: UK Medical Acronyms
  5. Fracture: Merck Manuals
  6. Fracture: MedFriendly Glossary
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  10. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  11. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  12. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  13. fracture: Medical dictionary
  14. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  15. Fracture: Drug Medical Dictionary
  16. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fracture: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fracture: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fracture: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Fracture: Building pathology glossary
  4. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  5. Fracture: Gems and Precious Stones
  6. Glossary of Diamonds (No longer online)
  7. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Fracture: Fiberglass Glossary
  9. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  12. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
noun:  (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
noun:  (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To break, or cause something to break.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.

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