frac
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology 1
editFrom English hydrofracking.
Verb
editfrac (third-person singular simple present fracs, present participle fraccing, simple past and past participle fracced)
- (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
editfrac
- (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
editAbbreviation of frac job.
Noun
editfrac (plural fracs)
- (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
editAbbreviation of fracture.
Noun
editfrac (plural fracs)
Etymology 4
editAbbreviation of fraction.
Noun
editfrac (plural fracs)
Derived terms
editAnagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfrac m (plural fracs)
Further reading
edit- “frac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfrac m (invariable)
- morning dress, tailcoat, white tie and tails
References
edit- ^ frac in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Middle Irish
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editfrac f
Mutation
editMiddle Irish mutation | ||
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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
edit- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “frac”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page gruag
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 frac, frag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editfrac n (plural fracuri)
Declension
editDeclension of frac
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) frac | fracul | (niște) fracuri | fracurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) frac | fracului | (unor) fracuri | fracurilor |
vocative | fracule | fracurilor |
Spanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfrac m (plural fracs or fraques)
Further reading
edit- “frac”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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