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hydraulic fracturing

American  

noun

  1. a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.

Etymology

Origin of hydraulic fracturing

First recorded in 1945–50

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