definition of
fracture

[1] #1 fracture v. violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language". wn

[2] #2 fracture n. [break] breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall". wn

[3] #3 fracture n. [fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, break] (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust". wn

[4] #4 fracture v. interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power". wn

[5] #5 fracture n. [crack, cracking] the act of cracking something. wn