frac

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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From English hydrofracking.

Verb

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frac (third-person singular simple present fracs, present participle fraccing, simple past and past participle fracced)

  1. (oil industry) To use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing)
    • 2011, Arrow, “Fraccing”, in Arrow Energy[2] (html), archived from the original on 22 January 2012:
      To date, Arrow has only fracced about 2.5 percent of its wells ...

Adjective

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frac

  1. (oil industry) Relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing
    • 2012 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes[3]:
      More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago.
    • 2012 January 26, Jonathan Fahey, “No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking'”, in Yahoo News[4]:
      The drilling industry has generally spelled the word without a "K," using terms like "frac job" or "frac fluid."

Etymology 2

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Abbreviation of frac job.

Noun

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frac (plural fracs)

  1. (oil industry) Frac job.
    • 1976, United States. Energy Research and Development Administration, Bartlesville Energy Technology Center, United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Oil, Gas, and Shale Technology, United States. Division of Oil, Gas, Shale, and In Situ Technology, United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Fossil Fuel Extraction, “NATURAL BUTTES UNIT, UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MASSIVE HYDRAULIC FRACTURING DEMONSTRATION”, in Contracts for cooperative and supporting research on enhanced oil and gas recovery and improved drilling methods[5], volumes 7-10:
      A program summary showing the type and volume of fluid and the size and amount of sand that is planned for the eight fracs is shown in table 1.

Etymology 3

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Abbreviation of fracture.

Noun

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frac (plural fracs)

  1. Fracture.
  2. Fracturing.

Etymology 4

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Abbreviation of fraction.

Noun

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frac (plural fracs)

  1. Fraction
  2. Fractioning

Derived terms

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Anagrams

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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

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From English frock.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fʁak/
  • Audio; fric-frac:(file)

Noun

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frac m (plural fracs)

  1. white tie and tails

Further reading

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Italian

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Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Etymology

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Borrowed from French frac.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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frac m (invariable)

  1. morning dress, tailcoat, white tie and tails

References

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  1. ^ frac in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Middle Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *wrakkā, probably related to *grúac (hair); for similar sense development, see Scottish Gaelic gruagach (maiden, woman), which evolved from gruag, as unmarried women did not cover their hair.[1][2][3]

Compare Welsh gwraig and Breton gwreg.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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frac f

  1. woman
    Synonyms: banscál, ben

Mutation

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Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
frac ḟrac frac
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “frac”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page gruag
  2. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gwraig”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  3. ^ Garnett, R. (1859). The Philological Essays of the Late Rev. Richard Garnett, of the British Museum. United Kingdom: Williams and Norgate, p. 159

Further reading

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French frac.

Noun

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frac n (plural fracuri)

  1. white tie and tails

Declension

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French frac.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾak/ [ˈfɾak]
  • Rhymes: -ak
  • Syllabification: frac

Noun

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frac m (plural fracs or fraques)

  1. tailcoat

Further reading

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