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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fissile
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
material
▪ There is a pressing case for the nuclear nations to deny fissile materials to would be customers.
▪ The military bomb boys can churn out their own fissile materials without difficulty.
▪ It won't need anything as big and expensive as a nuclear power station to provide the fissile material.
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▪ It won't need anything as big and expensive as a nuclear power station to provide the fissile material.
▪ The military bomb boys can churn out their own fissile materials without difficulty.
▪ There is a pressing case for the nuclear nations to deny fissile materials to would be customers.
▪ This was done because in theory fusion neutrons could be an alternative to fission reactors for making fissile elements for weapons.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fissile

Fissile \Fis"sile\, a. [L. fissilis, fr. fissus, p. p. of findere to split. See Fissure.]

  1. 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.

  2. Fissionable.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fissile

1660s, from Latin fissilis "that which may be cleft or split," from fissus, past participle of findere "cleave, split, separate, divide" (see fissure).

Wiktionary
fissile

a. 1 Able to be split 2 (context geology English) Easily split along a grain 3 (context physics English) Capable of undergoing nuclear fission

WordNet
fissile

  1. adj. capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable nucleous"; "fissionable material" [syn: fissionable] [ant: nonfissionable]

  2. capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood" [ant: nonfissile]

Usage examples of "fissile".

Wearing her arms inspectorate hat, she was all too familiar with the effects of americium bombs: nuclear weapons made with an isotope denser and more fissile than plutonium, more stable than californium.

We condemned the Indian nuclear tests, reaffirmed our support for the Nuclear Nonproliferation and Comprehensive Test Ban treaties, and said we wanted a global treaty to stop the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons.

Wearing her arms inspectorate hat, she was all too familiar with the effects of americium bombs: nuclear weapons made with an isotope denser and more fissile than plutonium, more stable than californium.

Above all to Elizabeth they did represent a family, however fissile and unsure, a house, and a child with the presumed determination of the parents, of her mother at least, to make one more effort to improve upon the past.