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s | frac |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb frac is

(oil drilling) to use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing ).

As an adjective frac is

(oil drilling) relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing.

As a noun frac is

(oil industry) frac job or frac can be fracture or frac can be fraction.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .
  • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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 ----