fracto-
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French fracto-, from Latin frāctus (“broken”).[1]
Prefix
fracto-
- Forming terms relating to the fracture or breaking of something.
- fracto- + emission → fractoemission (“the generation of charge through the breakup of rock particles”)
Derived terms
References
- ^ “fracto-, comb. form”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
