What is "fracturing"

Usage examples of "fracturing".

In place of the purplish-white chaos of lightspeed, local space was fracturing into elongating lines of light.

Jeremy’s death had changed that, fracturing her careful facade like a gem struck by a careless stonecutter.

Just enough fracturing to ensure its legitimacy, not enough to endanger the integrity of the bottle itself.

They found many fragments and a few cylindrical segments that had been shafts of tourmaline as long and thick as Chance’s finger before the earth had twisted, fracturing and finally shattering the tourmaline’s crystal integrity.

Basalt wells up deep below the surface, fracturing the crust in thousands of fault zones.

Baglos had been prepared for a journey of horror at the crossing, but in truth he must have fainted, for a great fracturing burst upon him just as he stepped through the wall of fire.

Both camps were their own worst enemy, and both camps contributed to a violent fracturing of the world they were supposed to heal.

These same pressures had also caused deep fracturing all around the rim of the basin, and it was this fracturing that had allowed unusually large amounts of outgassing from the interior of the planet.

There were few coherent responses, small blue spirals of light drifted through the holographic screen, fracturing any icons which did emerge from the management program.

The post-modernist movement, in literature, in philosophy, in politics, regards such a fracturing of identity as inevitable.

The matrix was coming apart, fracturing into millions of bits of meaningless data.

She was pouring so much power into fracturing the prism that she did not have enough strength left over to scream.