What is the meaning of fracture?

noun

• Breaking of hard tissue such as bone.
  • usage: "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
  • synonyms: break
• Geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other. (
  • usage: "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"
  • synonyms: fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, break
• The act of cracking something.
  • synonyms: crack, cracking

verb

• Violate or abuse.
  • usage: "This writer really fractures the language"
• Interrupt, break, or destroy.
  • usage: "fracture the balance of power"
• Break into pieces.
  • usage: "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"
• Become fractured.
  • usage: "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"
• Break (a bone. )
  • usage: "She broke her clavicle"
• Fracture a bone of.
  • usage: "I broke my foot while playing hockey"
  • synonyms: break