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Definition: FISSILITY

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Quality of being fissile.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Fissility" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Specialty Definition: FISSILITY

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Noun] The quality of admitting to be cleft.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Mining A general term for the property possessed by some rocks of splitting easily into thin layers along closely spaced, roughly planar, and approx.parallel surfaces, such as bedding planes in shale or cleavage planes in schist; its presence distinguishes shale from mudstone. The term includes such phenomena as "bedding fissility" and "fracture cleavage." Etymol. Latin fissilis, that which can be cleft or split. Adj.fissile. (references)
Wiktionary 1: [Noun] (geology) The property of mudstones to split along layers, more or less parallel to the plane of bedding, thus becoming described as shales. (references)
  2: [Noun] Quality of being fissile. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: FISSILITY

Expressions Domain Definition
Bedding fissility Mining A term generally restricted to primary foliation parallel to the bedding of sedimentary rocks; i.e., it forms while the sediment is being deposited and compacted. It is the result of the parallelism of the platy materials to the bedding plane, partly because they were deposited that way and partly because they were rotated into this position during compaction. (references)

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Extended Definition: FISSILITY


Fissility

Fissility may refer to:

  • Fissility (geology), a property of shales
  • Fissility (physics), referring to a nuclear process



Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Fissility". Image Credit.



Topics by Level of Interest: FISSILITY

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Fissility 4     Fissility 4
Fissility (geology) 2     Fissility (geology) 2

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Translations: FISSILITY

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Bohemian štěpitelnost (fissility, fissionability). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina štěpitelnost (fissility, fissionability). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech štěpitelnost (fissility, fissionability). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Dari شكافتني بودن (fissility), قابليت انشقاق (fissility). Additional references: Dari, Iran, Indo-European, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Spaltbarkeit (fissility, fissionability). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch splijtbaarheid (cleavage, cleaving, fissility, rifting). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Français fissilite (fissility), fissibilité (fissility), fission (fission, nuclear fission, cleavage, fissility), fissilite de un couche (bedding fissility). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
French fissilite (fissility), fissibilité (fissility), fission (fission, nuclear fission, cleavage, fissility), fissilite de un couche (bedding fissility). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
German Spaltbarkeit (fissility, fissionability). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek διασπασιμότητα (fissility). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek (transliteration) dhiaspasimotita (fissility). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 분열성 (fissility), 열개성 (fissility), 분열하기 쉬운 성질 (fissility). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 분열성 (fissility), 열개성 (fissility), 분열하기 쉬운 성질 (fissility). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Hebrew סדיקות (fissility). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Spaltbarkeit (fissility, fissionability). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Spaltbarkeit (fissility, fissionability). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian fissionabilita (fissility), fissilita (fissility), fissilita di strato (bedding fissility), fogliazione di strato (bedding fissility). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Ivrit סדיקות (fissility). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 剥離性 (fissility), 分裂性 (fissionable, fissility). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 분열성 (fissility), 열개성 (fissility), 분열하기 쉬운 성질 (fissility). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Parsi شكافتني بودن (fissility), قابليت انشقاق (fissility). Additional references: Parsi, Iran, Indo-European, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Persian شكافتني بودن (fissility), قابليت انشقاق (fissility). Additional references: Persian, Iran, Indo-European, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Persian (Farsi) شكافتني بودن (fissility), قابليت انشقاق (fissility). Additional references: Persian (Farsi), Iran, Indo-European, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish fisibilidad (fissility), fisilidad (fissility). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, fissility. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: FISSILITY

Language Translations for “fissility” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin issilityfay (fissility). Additional references: Pig Latin, fissility. (volunteer)
Terran B fissionadti (fissility). Additional references: Terran B, fissility. (volunteer)
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