fissile
English
Etymology
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Adjective
fissile (comparative more fissile, superlative most fissile)
- Able to be split
- (geology) Easily split along a grain
- (physics) Capable of undergoing nuclear fission, especially by collision with a thermal neutron
- 2014 March 30, Choe Sang-hun, “North Korea vows to use 'new form' of nuclear test”, in The New York Times:
- North Korea may soon have access to regular amounts of fissile material if it doesn't already ...
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Derived terms
Translations
able to be split
easily split along a grain
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capable of undergoing nuclear fission
French
Further reading
- “fissile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -issile
Adjective
fissile (masculine and feminine plural fissili)
Synonyms
- (fissionable) fissionabile
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