Meaning of mono-fracture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A joint or fracture that represents a single line or plane of slippage.
   countable
2. The process of breaking down a complex process or entity into multiple repeatable steps or units.
   uncountable

Examples

“... 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).”

“The Joints occur in sets either as single mono-fractures or as groups of fractures located within zones of high and low intensity.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.””

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