To break. [Not used.]
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Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an ordinary.
1. The act of breaking or state of being broken, especially by violence.
2. In arithmetic and algebra, a broken part of an integral or integer; any division of a whole number or unit, as 2/5, two fifths, 1/4, one fourth, which are called vulgar fractions. In these, the figure above the line is called the numerator, and the figure below the line the denominator. In decimal fractions, the denominator is a unit, or 1, with as many cyphers annexed, as the numerator has places. They are commonly expressed by writing the numerator only, with a point before it by which it is separated from the whole number; thus .5, which denotes five tenths, 5/10, or half the whole number; .25, that is 25/100, or a fourth part of the whole number.
1. The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
2. A portion; a fragment.
3. One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude.
To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; -- frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum.
Belonging to a broken number; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; as fractional numbers.
1. Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.
2. Relatively small; inconsiderable; insignificant; as, a fractional part of the population.
By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.
To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.
Apt to break out into a passion; apt to quarrel; cross; snappish; as a fractious man.
A cross or snappish temper.
Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture.
1. A breach in any body, especially a breach caused by violence; a rupture of a solid body.
2. In surgery, the rupture or disruption of a bone. A fracture is simple or compound; simple, when the bone only is divided; compound, when the bone is broken, with a laceration of the integuments.
3. In mineralogy, the manner in which a mineral breaks, and by which its texture is displayed; as a compact fracture; a fibrous fracture; foliated, striated or conchoidal fracture etc.
2. The breaking of a bone.
3. The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
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Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.