Plural of fractur; broken or fractured materials or objects, often used historically or in specialized contexts.
From Latin fractura (breaking) + -s (plural). This is primarily a historical or archaic pluralization used in technical writing.
This word is rarely seen in modern English because we usually say 'fractures' instead—it's the kind of word linguists find in old manuscripts, making it a time capsule of how English used to sound.
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