Definition of fissure

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Fissure (v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.

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Slickensides :: Slickensides (n.) The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another..
Lava :: Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States..
Slit :: Slit (n.) To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose..
Uranoplasty :: Uranoplasty (n.) The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.
Flaw :: Flaw (n.) A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase..
Shake :: Shake (n.) A fissure in rock or earth.
Elephantiasis :: Elephantiasis (n.) A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide..
Suleah Fish :: Sulcus (n.) A furrow; a groove; a fissure.
Contrafissure :: Contrafissure (n.) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it..
Shake :: Shake (n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly..
Cranny :: Cranny (n.) A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance..
Parting :: Parting (n.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam..
Falx :: Falx (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain..
Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..
Leak :: Leak (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps..
Fissuration :: Fissuration (n.) The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.
Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
Tear :: Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely..
Chink :: Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall..
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