1.
[syn: fissionable, fissile]
2. capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain;
- Example: "fissile crystals"
- Example: "fissile wood"
The 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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