Meaning

1 senses

  1. (uncountable, usually)Hydraulic fracturing.

    Fracking

More definitions
  • a well-stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid

Examples

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  1. Does fracking really cause earthquakes?

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  2. Algeria has massive quantities of shale oil that could be extracted through fracking.

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  3. Fracking is a type of geo-engineering to get oil out of shale.

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  4. Does fracking cause earthquakes?

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Translations

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By meaning 1
hydraulic fracturing:

Origin

From frack (“fracture”) + -ing.

From frack (“fracture”) + -ing.

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Forms

plural: frackings

Word family

3 related words
Derivedantifrackinghuman frackinghydrofracking

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
foxB2foxyfoyerfractionC1fractiousC2fracture
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