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Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.

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  1. a. Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.
  2. adj. capable of undergoing nuclear fission
  3. adj. capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain
  4. Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals. This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone. Sir I. Newton.
  5. Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction ofthe grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, likecrystals.This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone. Sir I. Newton.
  6. j:100 a. capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain