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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective fissile has 2 senses
- fissile(a = adj.all) fissionable - capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable nucleous"; "fissionable material"
- fissile(a = adj.all) Array - capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood" Antonym: nonfissile
CIDE DICTIONARY
fissile, 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. [1913 Webster]"This crystal is a pellucid,
fissile stone." [1913 Webster] - Fissionable. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fissile, adj.
1 capable of undergoing nuclear fission.
2 cleavable; tending to split.
1 capable of undergoing nuclear fission.
2 cleavable; tending to split.
Derivative
fissility n.
Etymology
L fissilis (as FISSURE)
THESAURUS
fissile
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, vulnerableROGET THESAURUS
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Brittleness
N brittleness, fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility, house of cards, house of glass, brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile, splitting, lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.
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