fissile

3 definitions found

fissile - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fissile \Fis"sile\, a. [L. fissilis, fr. fissus, p. p. of
     findere to split. See Fissure.]
     1. 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. --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Fissionable.
        [PJC]

fissile - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fissile
      adj 1: capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable
             nucleous"; "fissionable material" [syn: fissionable,
             fissile] [ant: nonfissionable]
      2: capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction
         of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood" [ant:
         nonfissile]

fissile - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "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