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Frack vs Frac - What's the difference?

frack | frac |

Frac is a alternative form of frack.



In oil industry terms the difference between frack and frac

is that frack is to employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking while frac is frac job.

As an adjective frac is

relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing.

As a noun frac is

frac job.

frack

English

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hydrofracking.

Verb

  • (oil industry) To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking )

    • Etymology 2

    Original and alternate spelling for (etyl) . See frak.

    Verb

  • (euphemistic) fuck.

    • References

    * Wikipedia frack. * Battlestarwiki frack

    frac

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (oil drilling) To use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing )
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date= , year=2011 , first= , last= , author=Arrow , authorlink= , title=Fraccing , site=Arrow Energy citation , format=html , page= , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-01-21 , passage=To date, Arrow has only fracced about 2.5 percent of its wells ... }}

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (oil drilling) Relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date=2012-01-03 , first= , last= , author=Ralph Benko , authorlink= , coauthors= , title=Daniel Yergin's The Quest , newspaper=Forbes , city= , publisher= , quotee= citation , page= , passage=More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago. }}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date=2012-01-26 , first= , last= , author=Jonathan Fahey , authorlink= , coauthors= , title=No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking' , newspaper=Yahoo News , city= , publisher= , quotee= citation , page= , passage=The drilling industry has generally spelled the word without a "K," using terms like "frac' job" or "' frac fluid." }}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (oil industry) Frac job.
  • * '>citation

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Fracture.
  • Fracturing.

    • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Fraction
  • Fractioning

    • Derived terms

    * frac job * frac spread ----