Fissure
['fɪʃə] or ['fɪʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes.
(verb.) break into fissures or fine cracks.
Typed by Jennifer--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.
(v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
Edited by Janet
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cleft, crevice, chink, crack, cranny, break, breach, gap, interstice, opening, chasm, rift, fracture.
Edited by Carlos
Definition
n. a narrow opening or chasm: a cleft slit or furrow: any groove or sulcus esp. one of the furrows on the surface of the brain as the longitudinal fissure separating the hemispheres.—adj. Fiss′ūred cleft divided.
Checker: Wendy
Examples
- In a narrow little fissure, just within reach of my forefinger, I felt the chain. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The New York of Newland Archer's day was a small and slippery pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It was said that no rails produced under the specifications provided by them had yet developed any fissures. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Induced interior transverse fissures can only develop in the track from the effects of preceding causes, either of which is no longer a mystery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Malcolm