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Webster 1913 Edition


Fissility

Fis-sil′i-ty

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Noun.
Quality of being fissile.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fissility

FISSIL'ITY

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Noun.
The quality of admitting to be cleft.

Definition 2024


fissility

fissility

English

Noun

fissility (usually uncountable, plural fissilities)

  1. Quality of being fissile.
  2. (geology) The property of mudstones to split along layers, more or less parallel to the plane of bedding, thus becoming described as shales.

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References

  • fissility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913