Definition of fissure

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

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Clifted :: Clifted (a.) Broken; fissured.
Fissure :: Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely..
Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..
Blower :: Blower (n.) A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
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..
Bord :: Bord (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
Chasm :: Chasm (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure..
Shake :: Shake (n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly..
Split :: Split (n.) A crack, or longitudinal fissure..
Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
Fissuration :: Fissuration (n.) The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.
Fissure :: Fissure (v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
Uranoplasty :: Uranoplasty (n.) The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.
Cranny :: Cranny (n.) A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance..
Contrafissure :: Contrafissure (n.) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it..
Chink :: Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall..
Chink :: Chink (v. t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
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..
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