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fracto-

fracto- prefix: forming terms relating to the fracture or breaking of something.

Prefix

fracto-

  1. Forming terms relating to the fracture or breaking of something.
    • fracto- + emission → fractoemission (“the generation of charge through the breakup of rock particles”)

Origin of fracto-

Borrowed from French fracto-, from Latin frāctus (“broken”).

Questions about fracto-

What does fracto- mean?
Fracto- means forming terms relating to the fracture or breaking of something.
What part of speech is fracto-?
Fracto- is a prefix.

Words near fracto- in the dictionary

  1. fractions
  2. fractious
  3. fractiously
  4. fractiousness
  5. fractitious
  6. fracto-
  7. fractoemission
  8. fractoemissions
  9. fractogram
  10. fractograms
  11. fractograph

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