fissure

[fis·sure]

A long fine crack in the surface of something is called a fissure. If you see a fissure in the ice on a frozen lake, you'll want to take off your skates and head back to the car.

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

Noun
(anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes

Noun
a long narrow opening

Noun
a long narrow depression in a surface

Verb
break into fissures or fine cracks

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.

Fissure

Fis"sure , 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. 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

Fis"sure , v. t. To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.

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

To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.

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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

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