Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The real problem in the terminology of fissility or fissileness," wrote one learned fellow, "is to distinguish between materials with natural or artificial nuclear splits.

From Time Magazine Archive

This fissility is combined with a more or less pronounced crystalline structure.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

This fissility, though usually marked, is not so great as in the schists or slates, and the split faces are not so smooth as in these latter rocks.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various