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Found 1 definition: fissure.

Pos: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun fissure has 3 senses

1. fissure(n = noun.shape) chap, crack, cranny, crevice - a long narrow depression in a surface;
is a kind of depression, impression, imprint
Derived form verb fissure₁

2. fissure(n = noun.object) cleft, crack, crevice, scissure - a long narrow opening;
is a kind of gap, opening
has particulars: chap, chink, crevasse, fatigue crack, break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift, rift, slit, split, vent, volcano
Derived form verb fissure₁

3. fissure(n = noun.body) - (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes;
is a kind of groove, vallecula
has particulars: sulcus, hilum, hilus

Verb fissure has 1 senses

fissure(v = verb.change) - break into fissures or fine cracks;
is one way to crack
Derived forms noun fissure₂, noun fissure₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

fissure, n. [L. fissura, fr. findere, fissum, to cleave, split; akin to E. bite: cf. F. fissure.].

A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. [1913 Webster]

Cerebral fissures (Anat.), the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole wall of the cerebrum. -- Fissure needle (Surg.), a spiral needle for catching together the gaping lips of wounds. Knight. -- Fissure of rolando (Anat.), the furrow separating the frontal from the parietal lobe in the cerebrum. -- Fissure of Sylvius (Anat.), a deep cerebral fissure separating the frontal from the temporal lobe. See Illust. under Brain. -- Fissure vein (Mining), a crack in the earth's surface filled with mineral matter. Raymond.

fissure, v. t.

To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture. [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

fissure, n. & v.
--n.
1 an opening, usu. long and narrow, made esp. by cracking, splitting, or separation of parts.
2 Bot. & Anat. a narrow opening in an organ etc., esp. a depression between convolutions of the brain.
3 a cleavage.
--v.tr. & intr. split or crack.

Etymology:
ME f. OF fissure or L fissura f. findere fiss- cleave

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.

Interval

N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.