Fissile meaning

fĭs'əl, -īl'
Possible to split.
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Fissionable, especially by neutrons of all energies.
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Easily split along close parallel planes.
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That can be split; fissionable.
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Able to be split.
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(physics) Capable of undergoing nuclear fission.
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(geology) Easily split along a grain.
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Origin of fissile

  • Latin fissilis from fissus split fissi–
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fissile Sentence Examples

  • fissile material cut-off treaty.

  • fissile material cut-off.

  • All States should increase transparency and security of their fissile material holdings.

  • Third, talks on a verifiable fissile material cutoff treaty should start immediately.

  • Schists in the common acceptance of that term are really highly crystalline rocks; fissile slates, shales or sandstones, in which the original sedimentary structures are little modified by recrystallization, are not included in this group by English petrologists, though the French schistes and the German Schiefer are used to designate also rocks of these types.

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