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Fissile

//ˈfɪsˌaɪ.əl// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be split.
  2. 2
    Easily split along a grain.

    "This Cryſtal is a pellucid fiſſile Stone, clear as Water or Cryſtal of the Rock, and without Colour; enduring a red Heat without loſing its tranſparency, and in a very ſtrong Heat calcining without Fuſion."

  3. 3
    Capable of sustaining a nuclear fission chain reaction.

    "North Korea may soon have access to regular amounts of fissile material if it doesn’t already and could be preparing Punggye-ri for a number of nuclear tests if the above analysis is correct."

Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain wordnet
  2. 2
    capable of undergoing nuclear fission wordnet

Etymology

From Latin fissilis.

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