Fracture

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

The breaking of a bone.

The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.

To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.

A break in a bone.

breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"

(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"

the act of cracking something