easily broken, damaged, or destroyed.
frag+ile
Shared component: frag · break
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fract
break
Related forms: fract · frag · 19 words in this dictionary
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Shared components, not spelling prefixesa small part or amount of something
fract+ion
Shared component: fract · break
The result of breaking something, especially a bone or other hard object
fract+ure
Shared component: fract · break
A small part broken off or separated from something larger.
frag+ment
Shared component: frag · break
(typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome.
fract+ious
Shared component: fract · break
relating to or expressed as a fraction; constituting a fraction.
fract+ion+al
Shared component: fract · break
A violation or infringement of a law, agreement, or set of rules.
in+fract+ion
Shared component: fract · break
The fact or phenomenon of light, radio waves, etc. being deflected in passing obliquely through the interface between one medium and another or through a medium of varying density.
re+fract+ion
Shared component: fract · break
stubbornly resistant to authority or control
re+fract+ory
Shared component: fract · break
To cause light or other radiation to change direction when it passes at an angle from one medium into another of different density.
re+fract
Shared component: fract · break
To cause light, sound, or other waves to spread out and bend when they pass through an opening or around an obstacle.
dif+fract
Shared component: fract · break
Broken or cracked, especially in a way that suggests damage.
fract+ure+ed
Shared component: fract · break
(of light or other radiation) having been deflected in passing obliquely through the interface between one medium and another or through a medium of varying density.
re+fract+ed
Shared component: fract · break
A lens or other device that causes refraction, especially one used in a telescope to bend light and form an image.
re+fract+or
Shared component: fract · break
(of light or other waves) having been caused to spread out or bend when passing through an opening or around an obstacle.
dif+fract+ed
Shared component: fract · break
The process or act of breaking or cracking something, especially a hard material like bone or rock.
fract+ur+ing
Shared component: fract · break
(of a lens or other body) causing light or other radiation to change direction when it enters at an angle
re+fract+ing
Shared component: fract · break
Describing the ability of a substance to make light change direction when it enters it at an angle.
re+fract+ive
Shared component: fract · break
The process by which a beam of light or other system of waves is spread out as a result of passing through a narrow opening or across an edge.
dif+fract+ion
Shared component: fract · break