fissile

English

Etymology

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Adjective

fissile (comparative more fissile, superlative most fissile)

1. Able to be split
2. (geology) Easily split along a grain
3. (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^[1]:

     North Korea may soon have access to regular amounts of fissile material if it doesn't already ...

Derived terms

• fissility

Translations

able to be split

• Bulgarian: цеплив (cepliv)
• Dutch: splijtbaar
• French: fissible (fr)
• German: spaltbar
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• Greek: διασπάσιμος (el) (diaspásimos), διαχωρίσιμος (el) m (diachorísimos)
• Manx: yn-scoltey
• Swedish: klyvbar

easily split along a grain

• Greek: εύσχιστος m (éfschistos)
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• Polish: łupliwy m

capable of undergoing nuclear fission

• Bulgarian: разцепващ се (razcepvašt se)
• Czech: štěpný m
• German: spaltbar
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• Greek: διασπάσιμος (el) (diaspásimos), σχάσιμος (schásimos)
• Polish: rozszczepialny m
• Swedish: fissil (sv)

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French

Adjective

fissile (plural fissiles)

1. fissile, fissible

Further reading

• “fissile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -issile

Adjective

1. fissile
2. (physics) fissile, fissionable
3. (geology) fissile

Synonyms

• (fissionable) fissionabile

Related terms

• fissilità
• fissione