Fissile

Definitions: Fissile

Fissile

Adjective

1. (physics) capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable nucleous"; "fissionable material".

2. Capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood".

Etymology: Fissile \Fis"sile\, adjective. [Latin expression fissilis, from fissus, past participle of findere to split. See Fissure.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Mining	A. Capable of being easily split along closely spaced planes; exhibiting fissility b. Said of bedding that consists of laminae less than 2 mm thic. (references)
Nuclear Energy & Physics	Of a nuclide, capable of undergoing fission by any process. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Fissile

Synonym: fissionable (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: nonfissile (adj), nonfissionable (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Brittleness	Adjective: brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile; splitting. Verb: lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fissile

English words defined with "fissile": breeder reactor ♦ core ♦ Fissility ♦ nonfissile. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fissile": critical chain reacting mass, critical mass ♦ enriched fuel, enriched reactor, enriched uranium reactor, enriched uranium-fueled reactor ♦ fast breeder reactor, Fertile material, Fissile material, Fissionable material ♦ irradiated fuel ♦ leptynolite ♦ mass balance area ♦ Neutron generation ♦ plutonium fueled reactor, plutonium reactor ♦ regenerating loss, reprocessing loss ♦ seed core, seeded core, slate ground. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Fissile" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Italian (fissile).

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Radioactive Chemical Elements and Isotopes (and Fissile or Fertile Elements and Isotopes) and Their Compounds Including Mixtures and Residues: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A Treaty on the Cutoff of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons - What to Cover? How to Verify? (reference) American National Standard Nuclear Criticality Safety Criteria for Steel-Pipe Intersections Containing Aqueous Solutions of Fissile Materials (reference) Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material (BCSIA Studies in International Security) (reference) Calculational methods for interacting arrays of fissile material (reference) Challenges of Fissile Material Control (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Russia	DOE took over the program from DOD and is seeking to enhance the security of weapons-grade fissile materials at more than 40 sites in Russia. (references)
	Russia	Construction continues on a facility for the storage of fissile material derived from dismantled Russian weapons at Mayak in the Southern Urals. (references)
	India	However, India has yet to sign the CTBT, agree to a fissile material production moratorium, or define its intentions on acquiring a nuclear deterrent clearly. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George W. Bush	2001-2005	Should Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Fissile" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fissile" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	14	93,893

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "fissile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i zbërthyeshëm (decomposable, demountable, fissionable, multiple, resolvable), i ndashëm (detachable, divisible, fissionable, removable, separable). (various references)

Arabic		‏قابل للانشطار (fissionable). (various references)

Bulgarian		шистен, който се цепи на пластове, делящ се. (various references)

Chinese		分裂性. (various references)

Czech		štìpitelný. (various references)

Danish		fissionabel (fissionable), fissil (fissionable), spaltelig (fissionable). (various references)

Dutch		fissiel, thermisch splijtbaar, splijtbaar door langzame neutronen, splijtbaar (fissionable). (various references)

Finnish		fissiili (fissionable), halkeava (fissionable). (various references)

French		fissile par neutrons lents, fissile (fissionable), fissible (fissionable). (various references)

German		spaltbar (fissionable). (various references)

Greek		σχάσιμος (fissionable), σχάσιμο από βραδέα νετρόνια, εύσχιστοσ (shaly), διαχωριστόσ (separable, severable). (various references)

Hebrew		פציל (fragmentable), בקיע (breach, chap, chasm, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, hernia), ס�"יק (crackable). (various references)

Hungarian		palás (schistose, slaty). (various references)

Italian		fissile (fissionable). (various references)

Korean		분열성. (various references)

Manx		yn-scoltey (cleavable). (various references)

Pig Latin		issilefay

Portuguese		físsil. (various references)

Romanian		uşor de despicat, care se desface uşor. (various references)

Russian		расщепляющийся (fissionable), расцепляющийся. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		fisioni. (various references)

Spanish		fisionable (fissionable), fisible por neutrones lentos, fisible (fissionable), físil. (various references)

Swedish		klyvbar (fissionable). (various references)

Turkish		yarılabilir, bölünebilir (divisible, fissionable). (various references)

Vietnamese		có thể tách ra được. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Fissile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bissle, fascile, fasile, fassile, fbscale, Fesole, Fiasella, fiscale, fischli, fisle, fissible, fissle, fossile, fossiled, fusille, Giswiler, Kizislu, Lisselle. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fissile" (pronounced fi"sul)
4	-i" s u l	antimissile, bristle, dismissal, epistle, gristle, missal, missel, missile, Thistle, whistle.
3	-s u l	apostle, Axel, axle, basal, brasil, bustle, cancel, capsule, Castle, colossal, consul, council, counsel, diesel, dispersal, docile, dorsal, facile, fossil, gracile, Hansel, Hassel, hassle, housel, hustle, imbecile, jostle, microfossil, morsel, mucosal, muscle, mussel, Nestle, parcel, Passel, pencil, pixel, Proconsul, rehearsal, reversal, rustle, stencil, tassel, Tattersall, tensile, Tercel, tinsel, tonsil, Tressel, trestle, tussle, universal, unsell, utensil, vassal, vessel, wrestle.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-i-i-l-s-s"
	-1 letter: filses.
	-2 letters: files, flies, isles, issei, seifs, selfs.
	-3 letters: fess, file, fils, isle, leis, less, lief, lies, life, seif, seis, self, sels.
	-4 letters: efs, elf, els, ess, fie, fil, ifs, lei, lie, lis, sei, sel, sis.
	-5 letters: ef, el, es, if, is, li, si.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-i-i-l-s-s"
	+1 letter: flimsies, misfiles, salifies.
	+2 letters: falsifies, falsities, filisters, filminess, finalises, fishlines, flimsiest, fluidises, fossilise, fossilize, fusiliers, misfields, salsifies.
	+3 letters: billfishes, bisulfides, bisulfites, classified, classifier, classifies, disbeliefs, disulfides, emulsifies, facsimiles, falsifiers, filariases, filefishes, filthiness, flimsiness, flintiness, fossilised, fossilises, fossilized, fossilizes, lionfishes, milkfishes, misbeliefs, sailfishes, semifinals, semifluids, silicifies, silverfish, simplifies, solidifies, stellifies, stultifies, tilefishes, wifeliness.
	+4 letters: blindfishes, classifieds, classifiers, devilfishes, distelfinks, emulsifiers, fieldstrips, filibusters, filminesses, finicalness, fissilities, fissionable, flightiness, floristries, killifishes, lifesavings, pitifulness, satisfiable, simplifiers, solemnifies, subfamilies, syllabifies, trisulfides.
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