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frac

frac verb: to use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing).

Verb

frac (third-person singular simple present fracs, present participle fraccing, simple past and past participle fracced)

  1. (oil industry) To use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing)
    • To date, Arrow has only fracced about 2.5 percent of its wells ...2011, Arrow, “Fraccing”, in Arrow Energy (html), archived from the original on 22 Jan 2012

Adjective

frac (not comparable)

  1. (oil industry) Relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing
    • More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago.2012 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2021
    • The drilling industry has generally spelled the word without a "K," using terms like "frac job" or "frac fluid."2012 January 26, Jonathan Fahey, “No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking'”, in Yahoo News, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2014

Noun (1)

frac (plural fracs)

  1. (oil industry) Frac job.
    • A program summary showing the type and volume of fluid and the size and amount of sand that is planned for the eight fracs is shown in table 1.1976, United States. Energy Research and Development Administration, Bartlesville Energy Technology Center, United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Oil, Gas, and Shale Technology, United States....

Noun (2)

frac (plural fracs)

  1. Fracture.
  2. Fracturing.

Noun (3)

frac (plural fracs)

  1. Fraction
  2. Fractioning

Forms of frac

Verb
third-person singular presentfracs
present participlefraccing
past participlefracced
pastfracced
alternative formfrack
Noun
pluralfracs

Origin of frac

Clipping of hydrofracking.

Abbreviation of frac job.

Abbreviation of fracture.

Words formed from frac

  • frac job
  • frac spread

Questions about frac

What does frac mean?
Frac means to use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing).
What part of speech is frac?
Frac can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
What is the past tense of frac?
The past tense of frac is fracced.

Words near frac in the dictionary

  1. frabjous
  2. frabjously
  3. Frable
  4. Frables
  5. frabs
  6. frac
  7. fracas
  8. fracases
  9. Fraccaro syndrome
  10. fracced
  11. fraccent

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