FISSURING

Verb

fissuring

present participle of fissure

Noun

fissuring (plural fissurings)

The formation of a fissure.

Source: Wiktionary


FISSURE

Fis"sure, n. Etym: [L. fissura, fr. findere, fissum, to cleave, split; akin to E. bite: cf. F. fissure.]

Definition: A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures (Anat.), the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole wall of the cerebrum.

– Fissure needle (Surg.), a spiral needle for catching together the gaping lips of wounds. Knight.

– Fissure of rolando (Anat.), the furrow separating the frontal from the parietal lobe in the cerebrum.

– Fissure of Sylvius (Anat.), a deep cerebral fissure separating the frontal from the temporal lobe. See Illust. under Brain.

– Fissure vein (Mining), a crack in the earth's surface filled with mineral matter. Raymond.

Fis"sure, v. t.

Definition: To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

11 May 2024

FATIGUE

(noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; “he was suffering from museum fatigue”; “after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue”; “the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue”; “political fatigue”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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