hairline fracture

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscapillary fracture

   Broaderfracture

Questions about hairline fracture

What does hairline fracture mean?

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

What is another word for hairline fracture?

Close synonyms include capillary 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 hairline fracture a common word?

hairline 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.