Lexic.us

Definition of Fissile

1. Adjective. Capable of undergoing nuclear fission. "Fissionable material"

2. Adjective. Capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain. "Fissile wood"

Definition of Fissile

1. a. Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.

Definition of Fissile

1. Adjective. Able to be split ¹

2. Adjective. (geology) Easily split along a grain ¹

3. Adjective. (physics) Capable of undergoing nuclear fission ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fissile

1. capable of being split [adj]

Medical Definition of Fissile

1. 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) Origin: L. Fissilis, fr. Fissus, p.p. Of findere to split. See Fissure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fissile

fishworms fishy fishy wishies fishy wishy fisk fisked fisking fisks fisnomie fisnomies

fissate fissgig fissgigs fissidentate fissigemmation fissile (current term) fissile material fissilingual fissilinguia fissilities

fissility fission fission bomb fission bombs fission fungi fission product fission reactor fission rocket fission rockets fission yeast

Literary usage of Fissile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1913)
"2066.5 10 1632 Green fissile shale and an occasional band of bluish sandstone. ... Dip 72" E 1941.5 180 1530 Green fissile shale carrying at top in a thin ..."

2. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1885)
"... not easily fissile mass ; (3) by a frequent remarkable and eminently distinctive puckering or crumpling (with frequent minute faulting) of the folia ..."

3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... Ark. — Small or middle-sized tree, with тегу tough and fissile wood. Braised foliage exhales the odor of Elder. 2. ..."

4. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1913)
"2143.5 7.6 1713 Green fissile shale, bands of dark-blue sandstone. ... 2066.5 10 1632 Green fissile shale and an occasional band of bluish sandstone. ..."

5. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1897)
"fissile quartzite, California. (USGS) of which they are already separated into parallel ... fissile ..."

6. Annual Report (new Series). by Geological Survey of Canada (1889)
"Soft fissile Green Schists. Clastic origin. These are schists closely resembling tho paste of some of the conglomerates. They are usually distinctly bedded. ..."

7. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"According to Dr. Gibbons, one of the most graceful trees. Stem frequently 200 feet to the first limb. Timber fissile, very strong and durable (Dufur). ..."

8. Geological Sketches at Home and Abroad by Archibald Geikie (1882)
"Sometimes, especially where most fissile, they are violently crumpled. Parts of them pass into hornblende rock and actinolite schist. ..."

Other Resources: