0 present participle of fracture
1 If something hard, such as a bone, fractures, or is fractured, it breaks or cracks:
Samples were carefully selected to avoid the effects of veining or fracturing.
There is, however, indirect evidence of a concentration of fracturing close to the hot springs.
Stressing the unimportant words and fracturing clauses will make the sporting announcement harder to understand, and it may acquire a spurious impression of profundity.
How pressure solution creep and fracturing processes interact in the upper crust to make it behave in both a brittle and viscous manner.
Other factors, too, were both cause and consequence of the fracturing of the relationship between middle class and town.
The least altered samples, that is, those showing no obvious veining, fracturing or mylonitization effects, were selected for analysis.
Pressure solution was accompanied and followed by fracturing and vein formation as microfracturing became important at a later phase.
Under low stresses, grain fracturing may be absent and deformation is accommodated also by grain rotation, grain sliding and porosity reduction.
