mono-fracture

plural mono-fractures

1. countablegeographyA joint or fracture that represents a single line or plane of slippage.

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

   1982, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne Conference, page 87

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   ... 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).

   1967, International Society for Rock Mechanics, Proceedings of the First Congress

   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.

   1997, Z Lianbo, T Chonglu, “Distribution Characteristics of Fractures in Low Permeable Reservoirs in an Extensional Structural Region”, in Experimental Petroleum Geology, volume 4

2. uncountableThe process of breaking down a complex process or entity into multiple repeatable steps or units.

   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.”

   2011, Rick Wilber, Future Media, →ISBN, page 422

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   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.

   1966, Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: Extensions Man, page 73