frac

English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From English hydrofracking.

Verb

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 (html), archived from the original on 22 January 2012:
      To date, Arrow has only fracced about 2.5 percent of its wells ...

Adjective

frac

  1. (oil industry) Relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing
    • 2012 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes‎:
      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:
      The drilling industry has generally spelled the word without a "K," using terms like "frac job" or "frac fluid."

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of frac job.

Noun

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, 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

Abbreviation of fracture.

Noun

frac (plural fracs)

  1. Fracture.
  2. Fracturing.

Etymology 4

Abbreviation of fraction.

Noun

frac (plural fracs)

  1. Fraction
  2. Fractioning

Derived terms
  • frac job
  • frac spread

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From English frock.

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

Noun

frac m (plural fracs)

  1. white tie and tails

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French frac.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfrak/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ak
  • Hyphenation: fràc

Noun

frac m (invariable)

  1. morning dress, tailcoat, white tie and tails

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

Old Irish

Etymology

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
  • IPA(key): /frak/

Noun

frac f

  1. woman
    Synonyms: banscál, ben

Inflection
Feminine ā-stem
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:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
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
  1. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “frac”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, 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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French frac.

Noun

frac n (plural fracuri)

  1. white tie and tails

Declension
Declension of frac
singular plural
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

Etymology

Borrowed from French frac.

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

Noun

frac m (plural fracs or fraques)

  1. tailcoat

Further reading
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