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Fissure vs Fission - What's the difference?

fissure | fission |

As nouns the difference between fissure and fission

is that fissure is a crack or opening, as in a rock while fission is the process whereby one item splits to become two.

As verbs the difference between fissure and fission

is that fissure is to split forming fissures while fission is to cause to undergo fission.

fissure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a crack or opening, as in a rock

    • Derived terms

    * fissure needle * fissure of Rolando * fissure of Sylvius * fissure vein

    Verb

    (fissur)
  • To split forming fissures.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    fission

    English

    (Nuclear fission)

    Noun

  • The process whereby one item splits to become two.
  • (physics) The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles; nuclear fission
  • (biology) The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells.

    • Antonyms

    * (process of splitting the nucleus of an atom) fusion

    Derived terms

    * fissile * fissionable * fissional * fission bomb

    Verb

  • To cause to undergo fission.
  • To undergo fission.