Fracture vs. Rupture — What's the Difference?

Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid.

An instance of breaking open or bursting

The act or process of breaking.

A break in friendly relations.

The condition of having been broken or ruptured

A hernia, especially of the groin or intestines.

A break, rupture, or crack, especially in bone or cartilage.

A tear in an organ or tissue

The characteristic manner in which a mineral breaks.

To cause to undergo or suffer a rupture

The characteristic appearance of the surface of a broken mineral.

To undergo or suffer a rupture

(Geology) A crack or fault in a rock.

A burst, split, or break.

To cause to break

A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.

To undergo a break in (a bone)

(medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.

To disrupt or destroy as if by breaking

(engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.

To abuse or misuse flagrantly, as by violating rules

(ambitransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

(Slang) To cause to laugh heartily

To dehisce irregularly.

To undergo a fracture.

The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring.

An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.

Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.

(medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.

Hernia. See Hernia.

(geology) A fault or crack in a rock.

A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.

(ambitransitive) To break, or cause something to break.

To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.

To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.

To produce a hernia in.

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

To suffer a breach or disruption.

The breaking of a bone.

State of being torn or burst open

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

A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions);

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.

The act of making a sudden noisy break

Breaking of hard tissue such as bone;

Separate or cause to separate abruptly;

(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;

The act of cracking something

Violate or abuse;

Interrupt, break, or destroy;

Break into pieces;

Become fractured;

Break (a bone);

Fracture a bone of;