Fissure

Definition: Fissure

Fissure

Noun

1. A long narrow depression in a surface.

2. A long narrow opening.

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

Verb

1. Break into fissures or fine cracks.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fissure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Fissure \Fis"sure\, noun. [Latin fissura, from findere, fissum, to cleave, split; akin to English bite: compare to French fissure.]. (references)

Geography

Geological

Health

Mining

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Synonyms: Fissure

Disjunction

Fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision.

Interval

Noun: 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.

Crosswords: Fissure

French (chap, chasm, chink, column, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, jag, rent, rift, rip, split, tear).

It's following a fissure, a flaw, in the earth's crust known as the Macedo Fault (Crack in the World; writing credit: Jon Manchip White)

Fissure (1996)

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Books

• Pit and Fissure Sealants (reference)

• The Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption: Geological and Geophysical Data, 1975-1976 (Cambridge Earth Science Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Fissure (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Lava dome with fissure in the Squaw Ridge Wilderness Study Area. OR 1-3. Credit: Unknown.

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Health

The cerebrum is split into two halves (hemispheres) by a deep fissure. (references)

Despite the split, the two cerebral hemispheres communicate with each other through a thick tract of nerve fibers that lies at the base of this fissure. (references)

Almost all of the relevant studies involved populations of children between 6 and 15 years of age. The interventions included application of acidulated phosphate fluoride gel (APF), fluoride varnish, chlorhexidine gels, pit and fissure sealants, and the use of dentrifices and other products containing noncariogenic sweeteners. (references)

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Expressions using "fissure": Anal Fissure ♦ contraction fissure ♦ Counter fissure ♦ fissure deposit ♦ Fissure in Ano ♦ Fissure needle ♦ fissure of retreat ♦ fissure of Rolando ♦ fissure of Sylvius ♦ Fissure vein ♦ oral fissure ♦ Pit and Fissure Sealants ♦ Rolando's fissure ♦ sylvian fissure. Additional references.

Beginning with "fissure": fissure-vein.

Albanian

plasë (chink, crack, cranny, crevice, leak, rent, rift), ndarje (allotment, bay, break, chamber, cleavage, compartment, detachment, differentiation, disjunction, dismemberment, dissociation, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, estrangement, fission, fragmentation, leave taking, outgiving, parceling, parcelling, parting, partition, schism, scission, secession, segmentation, segregation, separation, severance, share out, sorting, spacing, split, splitting), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow), copëtoj (break, break in pieces, chop, crack up, cut to pieces, cut up, disintegrate, dismember, dissect, fragment, joint, mangle, maul, rend, rip up, sever, sunder), copëtim (cleavage, disintegration, dismemberment, fission, fraction), çarje (break, breaking, cleavage, cleft, cut, dissection, fracture, gap, gulf, incision, opening, orifice, rent, rift, slash, split, splitting, wedge), çaj (break, char, cleave, cut, dissect, forge, impale, open, pink, puncture, push through, slash, slit, split, tea, tear, worm). (various references)

Arabic 

شَق (crack), ‏فجوة (aperture, breach, break, cavity, chamber, chasm, crack, crevasse, crevice, discontinuity, gap, hiatus, hole, lacuna, opening), ‏فرجة (crack, crevice, gap, interstice), ‏صدع (breach, chasm, check, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fault, flaw, rent, rift, split), ‏إنصداع, ‏إنشقاق (cleavage, desertion, dissent, dissepiment, dissidence, rent, schism, scission, separation, split, split up, splitting), ‏إنشق (break up, cleave, crack, gap, rip, rive, splinter, split), ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist). (various references)

Bulgarian 

цепка (cleft, rip, slash, slit, slot, split, vent), цепнатина (chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, cracking, flaw, leak, rent, rift, shake, slash, slit, slot), пукнатина (break, chap, chink, cleft, cranny, crevice, flaw, gash, leak, rift, shake, split, spring). (various references)

Chinese 

裂痕. (various references)

Czech

štìrbina (chink, cleft, crack, crevice, leak, slit, slot). (various references)

Danish

fissur (cleft, crack, gap). (various references)

Dutch

fissuur, fissura (cleft, crack, gap), vore (furrow, wrinkle), spleet (crack, crevice), scissura (cleft, crack, gap), scheurvorming (break, brittleness, crack formation, cracking, crack-initiating process), scheur (burst, crack, tear), kloof (crack, crevice, ravine), haarscheurtje (check, cleft, crack, small crack, split), gleuf (slot), diaklaas (diaclase, fracture, joint), barstje (crack), barst (burst, crack, crevice, flaw). (various references)

Finnish

särö (crack, flaw), halkeama (chink, cleft, crack, crevasse, crevice, split). (various references)

French

fissure, fente, crevasse. (various references)

German

spalt (chink, clefts, crack, crevice, gap, opening, rift, split), Sprung (bound, branch, break, crack, dive, hop, interstice, jump, leap, plunge, pounce, skip, spring, stone's throw, transfer, vault), riss (break, chap, cleft, crack, crevice, gap, interstice, laceration, rift, rip, ripped, sketch, sketch plan, split, tear), spalte (break, chasm, chink, cleavage, cleft, col, column, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fudge, gap, hole, pillar, rift). (various references)

Greek 

ρωγμή (chink, cleft, crack, crevasse, crevice, rift), σχισμή (cleft, cranny, crevice, placket, rift, slit, slot, split). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבקע (breach, hiatus), לס�"וק (chap, crack, fracture, split), פשיח�" (split), חוח (cleft, hook, ring), חריץ (crack, crevice, ditch, flute, fluting, groove, jag, notch, rut, score, slit, slot), חרץ (cut, incision, slot), בקיע�" (breach, cleaving, cracking, hatching, herniation, splitting), בקיע (breach, chap, chasm, crack, cranny, crevice, fissile, hernia), בקע (crevasse, fragment, hernia, rift, rupture, split), סעיף (article, branch, paragraph, section), ס�"יק�" (crack, split), ס�"וק (cleft, cracked, cracking, fission, split, splitting), ס�"ק (chap, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, flaw, fracture, rift, slit, split), � קיק (cleft, crevice, gorge, ravine), � קע (cleft, crevice, sprain, strain). (various references)

Hungarian

hasadás (breach, break, chink, cleavage, crack, cracking, fission, flaw, rive, slit, split, tear), repedés (chop, cleft, crack, cranny, fission, flake, flaw, rictus, rift, slit, spring, tear), rés (aperture, chink, cranny, crevice, flaw, gap, hiatus, hole, leak, missing link, mortice, mortise, opening, pool, rift, Rive, scupper, slit, slot, split), hasadék (breach, chink, chop, cleft, cranny, crevice, flaw, gorge, hiatus, ravine, rip, rive). (various references)

Indonesian

retak (crack, cracked, crevice, flaw), genggang (ajar, slightly open, split), celah (aperture, chink, cleft, crevice, gap, rift, slit, slot, space), belahan (cleavage, fission, splinter, split). (various references)

Italian

fessura (burst, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, flaw, leak, Rive, slit, slot, split), crepa (burst, cleft, crack, crevice, flaw, rift, split). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

亀裂 (chap, crack, crevice). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きれつ (chap, crack, crevice), ひび (chaps, crack, daily, day after day, every day, flaw), われめ (chasm, crack, crevice, interstice, rift, split). (various references)

Korean 

열구. (various references)

Manx

skort (chasm, cleft, cleft in rock, rent, rift), scoltey (analysis, beanfeast; skive, blow out, burst, bursting, chop up, cleavage; heavy meal, cleave, cleft, crack, crack; feed, cracking, crevasse, disunion, fission, fracture, gutting, hew, rend, scission, slit, slitting, sliver, slot, split, tuck in; gut; fault, vent, venting). (various references)

Pig Latin

issurefay.(various references)

Portuguese

fissura (chink, cranny), racha (check, chink, cranny, crevice, flaw, fracture, rent, rift, slit, split), fenda (aperture, breach, chap, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, flaw, fracture, gap, hiatus, leak, pit, rent, rift, rip, slit, split). (various references)

Romanian

fisurã (cleft, crevice, fault, loophole, rift, split), fisura (cleave), falie (failure, fault, yawn), se despica (rend, Rive, splinter, split up), se crãpa (crack, flaw, rend, spring), scizurã, crãpãturã (breach, break, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, eyehole, flaw, loophole, Nick, rent, rift, slit, slot, split, yawn). (various references)

Russian 

расщелина (cleft, crack, crevice, opening), щель (areaway, call slot, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, flaw, gap, hiatus, interstice, notch, peep, rent, rift, slit, slit trench, slot), трещина (cavity, chap, check, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, flaw, fracture, joint, rent, rift, slit, split, vug), излом (dog leg, dog-leg, fracture). (various references)

Scottish

g� g (a cleft, chink, cleft). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

fisura, raspuklina, pukotina (cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, flaw, gap, leak, rent, seam), procep (rift). (various references)

Spanish

hendidura (cleavage, indent, ravine, slot), grieta (burst, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, flaw, rift, seam, shake, split), fisura (chasm, column). (various references)

Swedish

spricka (break, burst, chink, cleavage, crack, crevice, flaw, go phut, plough, rent, score), klyvning (bisection, cleavage, dichotomy, fission, split), klyfta (chasm, cleft, gap, gorge, gully, ravine, section, segment). (various references)

Thai

แยกออก (sever), ทำให้แยกออก, รอยแตก (breach, breakage, fracture). (various references)

Turkish

yarık (breach, chap, chappy, chasm, chink, cleft, cloven, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, gash, hiatus, incision, interstice, rent, rift, scissure, shake, slit, slot, split, tear, vent), çatlama (cracking, dehiscence, split, spring), çatlak (balmy, barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cuckoo, disordered, fault, flaw, fracture, fractured, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nut, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, potty, queer, queer in the head, rift, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaken, shaky, split, spring, touched). (various references)

Turkmen 

яaryk (crack, crevice), jaяryk (crack, split). (various references)

Ukrainian

розтріскуватися (chink), розколюватися (crack, rift, split), тріщина (break, chap, chink, chop, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, flaw, rift), борозна (furrow, rill, thorough). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chỗ nẻ, chỗ nứt (break, breakage). (various references)

Welsh

agen (cleft, clink, slot). (various references)

chasma, foramen, foramina, foramine, foraminibus, scissura, scissuras, vena, venae, venam, venarum, venas, venis. (various references)

cinu. (various references)

cran. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fissure": fissured, fissures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fissure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fassure, fasure, Fiserve, fissue, gisburne, Isserre, issure. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fussier.

-1 letter: frises, furies, fusser, issuer, serifs, sieurs.

-2 letters: fires, fries, frise, fuses, issue, reifs, rises, risus, ruses, seifs, serfs, serif, sieur, sires, suers, surfs, users.

-3 letters: fess, feus, fire, firs, furs, fuse, fuss, ires, refs, reif, reis, rife, rifs, rise, rues, ruse, seif, seis, serf, sers, sire, sirs, sris, suer, sues, sure, surf, user.

+1 letter: fissured, fissures, friseurs, infusers, surfeits, surfiest.

+2 letters: bushfires, diffusers, fruitless, furbishes, furnishes, fusileers, fusiliers, refusniks, reinfuses, russified, russifies, scurfiest, siffleurs, sufficers.

+3 letters: brushfires, disfigures, drumfishes, firehouses, flourishes, fremituses, fruitiness, furbishers, furnishers, interfuses, justifiers, perfusions, refuseniks, scruffiest, sufferings, sulfurizes, superfirms, superfixes, surfeiters, surffishes, unfairness.

+4 letters: circumfuses, distressful, emulsifiers, filibusters, flourishers, fruitlessly, fundraisers, furanosides, furosemides, furtiveness, gypsiferous, luciferases, misfortunes, pestiferous, refocussing, refugeeisms, refurbishes, refurnishes, scruffiness, somniferous, superficies, superfluids, surgeonfish, trisulfides, trunkfishes, uniformness.