fissure
/ˈfɪʃ.ə/US/ˈfɪʃ.ɚ/
fissure noun: a long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.
Noun
fissure (plural fissures)
- A long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.
- After Miller's Dale Junction, the main Derby-Manchester line crosses the Wye for the last time and turns north-west up Great Rocks Dale, a natural fissure several miles long.1960 April, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak—Derby to Manchester: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 224
- A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft or tear between body parts or in the substance of an organ.
- A break or slit in tissue usually at the junction of skin and mucous membrane.
- A state of incompatibility or disagreement.
- Synonyms:
- schism
Verb
fissure (third-person singular simple present fissures, present participle fissuring, simple past and past participle fissured)
- To split, forming fissures.
fissure meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
fissure in Hindi
- fissure
- दर्रा darrā, खोप khop
fissure in Tamil
- பிளவு, பிளவு படுத்து, வெடிப்பு, விரிசல்
fissure in Urdu
- fissure
- درہ darra, کھوپ khop
fissure in Bengali
- ফাটল, ছিদ্র, দীর্ঘ ও সরু ফাটল
More languagesFewer languages
- fissure in Malayalam
- വിള്ളൽ viḷḷal
- fissure in Kannada
- ಬಿರುಕು
- fissure in Punjabi
- ਦਰਾੜ darāṛ
- fissure in Odia
- ଖଣ୍ଡ khaṇḍa
- fissure in Sanskrit
- विवर vivara
- fissure in Arabic
- شَقّ šaqq, صَدْع ṣadʕ
- fissure in Indonesian
- keretakan, meretakkan
- fissure in Persian
- شکاف šekâf, چاک čâk, رخنه rexne, فیسور fisur
Examples of fissure in a sentence
- It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.
- Libido is “tertiated” and the shell fissured, becoming permeable to affects, the other, and reality.
- Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures.
Synonyms of fissure
Forms of fissure
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fissures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fissures |
| present participle | fissuring |
| past participle | fissured |
| past | fissured |
Origin of fissure
From Middle English fissure, from Old French fissure, from Latin fissūra (“a cleft, chink”), from findō (“to cleave, split, divide”) + -tūra (nominal suffix).
Words formed from fissure
- fissuration
- fissured
- fissuring
- ape-fissure
- contrafissure
- counterfissure
- fissural
- fissurate
- fissureless
- fissurelike
- fissure needle
- fissure vein
- fissure vent
- fissuriform
- fissurization
- fissurotomy
- fissury
- inferior orbital fissure
- laryngofissure
- pterygomaxillary fissure
- superior orbital fissure
- Sylvian fissure
- thyrofissure
Phrases with fissure
Words that rhyme with fissure
Questions about fissure
- What does fissure mean?
- Fissure means a long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.
- What is fissure in Hindi?
- Fissure in Hindi is दर्रा (darrā), खोप (khop). See Fissure meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fissure?
- Fissure can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fissure?
- Fissure is pronounced /ˈfɪʃ.ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fissure?
- The plural of fissure is fissures.
Words near fissure in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fissure (page history and authors); खोप (Hindi) (page history and authors); fissure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); درہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); Fissure (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fissure (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਦਰਾੜ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ଖଣ୍ଡ (Odia) (page history and authors); विवर (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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