fissure
fissure Lexical Profile
fissure Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A long, narrow opening or line of breakage made by cracking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.
"Geologists carefully measured the deep fissure that opened across the valley floor after the earthquake."
A state of incompatibility or disagreement; a division or split between groups or within an organization.
"The policy debate exposed a growing ideological fissure within the governing coalition."
A natural groove, furrow, or deep sulcus on the surface of a bodily organ, such as the cerebral cortex or liver, or a tear in skin or mucous membrane.
"The longitudinal fissure divides the human brain into its left and right cerebral hemispheres."
• verb
To split, crack, or break into long, narrow openings.
"Months of severe drought caused the dry clay soil to fissure across the entire plain."
• Rhymes for fissure
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French fissure or directly from Latin fissura ('a cleft, crack, or chink'), derived from the past participle stem of findere ('to split or cleave').