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fracture

英['fræktʃə] 美['fræktʃɚ]
  • n. 破裂,断裂;[外科] 骨折
  • vi. 破裂;折断
  • vt. 使破裂

英英释意


1. breaking of hard tissue such as bone;
"it was a nasty fracture"
"the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
2. (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"
3. the act of cracking something