<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition</li><li>the act of breaking; state of being broken</li><li>a break, breach, or split</li><li>the characteristic manner of breaking: a material of unpredictable fracture</li><li>the characteristic appearance of a broken surface, as of a mineral</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>to cause or to suffer a fracture in (a bone, etc.)</li><li>to break or crack</li><li>to amuse highly or cause to laugh heartily; delight: The new comic really fractured the audience</li><li>to become fractured; break: a mineral that does not fracture easily</li></ul>