Meaning of FISSILE
| Pronunciation: | | 'fisul
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- [adj] capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood"
- [adj] (physics) capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable nucleous"; "fissionable material"
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| | Synonyms: | | fissionable |
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| | Antonyms: | | nonfissile, nonfissionable | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fis"sile\, a. [L. fissilis, fr. fissus, p. p. of
findere to split. See {Fissure}.]
Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of
the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage,
like crystals.
This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone. --Sir I.
Newton.
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| | Related Terms: | | alienable, breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, delicate, dissoluble, dissolvable, divisible, fissionable, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, lacerable, scissile, separable, severable, shatterable, shattery, shivery, splintery, vulnerable |
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