capillary fracture

1. 1.

   a fracture without separation of the fragments and the line of the break being very thin

   Synonymshairline fracture

   Broaderfracture

Questions about capillary fracture

What does capillary fracture mean?

capillary fracture means "a fracture without separation of the fragments and the line of the break being very thin".

What is another word for capillary fracture?

Close synonyms include hairline fracture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is capillary fracture a common word?

capillary fracture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.