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mono-fracture en · NOUN

Etymology

From mono- + fracture.

Meanings

1. (countable) A joint or fracture that represents a single line or plane of slippage.
   • ... high confining pressure is associated with the closed short joint type, occuring ^([sic]) as a disperse cataclasm, whereas low confining pressure will cause the single closed extensive cleavage joint (mono-fracture). 1967, International Society for Rock Mechanics, Proceedings of the First Congress:
   • The Joints occur in sets either as single mono-fractures or as groups of fractures located within zones of high and low intensity. 1982, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne Conference, page 87:
   • On a section, a mono-fracture appears planar, listric and ramp-flat; and multi-fractures may be in a combined pattern of grabenuhorst ^([sic]) or domino, showing a consistent distribution with the growth normal faults in the region. 1997, Z Lianbo, T Chonglu, “Distribution Characteristics of Fractures in Low Permeable Reservoirs in an Extensional Structural Region”, in Experimental Petroleum Geology, volume 4:
2. (uncountable) The process of breaking down a complex process or entity into multiple repeatable steps or units.
   • Mechanization of any process is achieved by fragmentation, beginning with the mechanization of writing by movable types, which has been called the “mono-fracture of manufacture.” 2011, Rick Wilber, Future Media, →ISBN, page 422:
   • To a much greater degree than Roman slavery, the specialism of mechanized industry and market organization has faced Western man with the challenge of manufacture by mono-fracture, or the tackling of all things and operations one-bit-at-a-time. 1966, Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: Extensions Man, page 73:

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