disrupture
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From disrupt, after rupture.[1]
Noun
[edit]disrupture (plural disruptures)
- Alternative form of disruption
- 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia:
- a disrupture and breach in the mountain
References
[edit]- “disrupture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Disrupture”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 503, column 1.
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]disruptūre