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fissile

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Adjective
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fis=sile

CIDE DICTIONARY

fissilea. [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.

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, vulnerable

ROGET THESAURUS

fissile

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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