frac
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
From English hydrofracking.
Verb edit
frac (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[1] (html), archived from the original on 22 January 2012:
- To date, Arrow has only fracced about 2.5 percent of its wells ...
Adjective edit
frac
- (oil industry) Relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing
- 2012 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes[2]:
- 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[3]:
- The drilling industry has generally spelled the word without a "K," using terms like "frac job" or "frac fluid."
Etymology 2 edit
Abbreviation of frac job.
Noun edit
frac (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[4], 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 edit
Abbreviation of fracture.
Noun edit
frac (plural fracs)
Etymology 4 edit
Abbreviation of fraction.
Noun edit
frac (plural fracs)
Derived terms edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
frac m (plural fracs)
Further reading edit
- “frac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
frac m (invariable)
- morning dress, tailcoat, white tie and tails
References edit
- ^ frac in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
frac f
Inflection edit
Feminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | fracL | fraicL | fracaH |
Vocative | fracL | fraicL | fracaH |
Accusative | fraicN | fraicL | fracaH |
Genitive | fraiceH | fracL | fracN |
Dative | fraicL | fracaib | fracaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
frac | ḟrac | frac pronounced with /v(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, 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
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
frac n (plural fracuri)
Declension edit
Declension 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 edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
frac m (plural fracs or fraques)
Further reading edit
- “frac”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014