mono-fracture
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
mono-fracture (countable and uncountable, plural mono-fractures)
- (geology, countable) A joint or fracture that represents a single line or plane of slippage.
- 1967, International Society for Rock Mechanics, Proceedings of the First Congress:
- ... 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).
- 1982, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne Conference, page 87:
- The Joints occur in sets either as single mono-fractures or as groups of fractures located within zones of high and low intensity.
- 1997, Z Lianbo, T Chonglu, “Distribution Characteristics of Fractures in Low Permeable Reservoirs in an Extensional Structural Region”, in Experimental Petroleum Geology, volume 4:
- 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.
- (uncountable) The process of breaking down a complex process or entity into multiple repeatable steps or units.
- 1966, Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: Extensions Man, page 73:
- 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.
- 2011, Rick Wilber, Future Media, →ISBN, page 422:
- 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.”