"mono-fracture" meaning in English

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          "text": "... high confining pressure is associated with the closed short joint type, occuring as a disperse cataclasm, whereas low confining pressure will cause the single closed extensive cleavage joint (mono-fracture).",
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          "text": "The Joints occur in sets either as single mono-fractures or as groups of fractures located within zones of high and low intensity.",
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          "ref": "1997, Z Lianbo, T Chonglu, “Distribution Characteristics of Fractures in Low Permeable Reservoirs in an Extensional Structural Region”, in Experimental Petroleum Geology, volume 4",
          "text": "On a section, a mono-fracture appears planar, listric and ramp-flat; and multi-fractures may be in a combined pattern of grabenuhorst or domino, showing a consistent distribution with the growth normal faults in the region.",
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        "(geology, countable) A joint or fracture that represents a single line or plane of slippage."
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          "ref": "1966, Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: Extensions Man, page 73",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2011, Rick Wilber, Future Media, page 422",
          "text": "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.”",
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