Fissure Definition

fĭshər
fissures
noun
fissures
A long, narrow, deep cleft or crack.
Webster's New World
The process of splitting or separating; division.
American Heritage Medicine
A dividing or breaking into parts.
Webster's New World
A separation into subgroups or factions; a schism.
American Heritage
A groove between lobes or parts of an organ, as in the brain.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To form a crack or cleft or cause a crack or cleft in.
American Heritage
To break into parts; crack or split apart.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Fissure

Noun

Singular:
fissure
Plural:
fissures

Origin of Fissure

  • Middle English cut from Old French from Latin fissūra from fissus split fissi–

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French fissure, Latin fissura.

    From Wiktionary

Fissure Sentence Examples

  • A fissure was formed extending nearly 9 m.

  • I managed to get the demons out and repair the fissure.

  • The portal fissure has been slightly opened up to show the vessels passing through it; the other fissures are represented in their natural condition - closed.

  • Nasal bones large and stout, co-ossified, and standing out freely above the premaxillae, from which they are separated by a deep and wide fissure; the latter small, generally not meeting in the middle line in front, often rudimentary.

  • It occurs in its matrix, either in or closely associated with fissure veins or disseminated through rock masses.

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Words Starting With

FFIFIS

Words Ending With

EREURE

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Words Starting With F and Ending With E

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