çatlatma
Çatlatma is a Turkish noun derived from the verb çatlatmak, meaning to crack or snap. The term denotes the act of producing a cracking sound or the result of that action. In everyday Turkish, çatlatma is used to describe the audible crack heard when a joint is adjusted, when something brittle breaks, or when a seed or shell is cracked open.
In addition to its general use, çatlatma appears in technical contexts. In materials science and engineering,
As a linguistic term, çatlatma is primarily used to refer to physical cracking and the associated sounds.
See also: crack, fracture, cracking sound, knuckle cracking.