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fissility

fissility noun: the quality of being fissile (in any sense).

Noun

fissility (usually uncountable, plural fissilities)

  1. (usually) The quality of being fissile (in any sense).
  2. (usually) The property of mudstones to split along layers, more or less parallel to the plane of bedding, thus becoming described as shales.

Forms of fissility

pluralfissilities

Origin of fissility

From fissile + -ity.

Questions about fissility

What does fissility mean?
Fissility means the quality of being fissile (in any sense).
What part of speech is fissility?
Fissility is a noun.
What is the plural of fissility?
The plural of fissility is fissilities.

Words near fissility in the dictionary

  1. fissigemmation
  2. fissile
  3. fissileness
  4. fissilingual
  5. fissilities
  6. fissility
  7. fissiogenic
  8. fission
  9. fission bomb
  10. fission bombs
  11. fission fragment

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