及物动词

名词

1. 破裂;(尤指)骨折
A fracture is a slight crack or break in something, especially a bone.

2. (使)(轻微)骨折;(使)断裂
If something such as a bone is fractured or fractures, it gets a slight crack or break in it.

3. (使)分裂;(使)解散
If something such as an organization or society is fractured or fractures, it splits into several parts or stops existing.

1. the act of cracking something

Synonym: crackcracking

2. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

e.g. they built it right over a geological fault
he studied the faulting of the earth's crust

Synonym: faultfaultinggeological faultshiftbreak

3. breaking of hard tissue such as bone

e.g. it was a nasty fracture
the break seems to have been caused by a fall

Synonym: break