Definition of Fissuring

1. Verb. (present participle of fissure) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fissuring

1. fissure [v] - See also: fissure

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fissuring

fissure of ligamentum venosum
fissure of round ligament of liver
fissure of venous ligament
fissure sealant
fissure sign
fissured
fissured fracture
fissureless
fissurelike
fissurella
fissurellas
fissures
fissures of liver
fissures of lung
fissuring
fist-fight
fist-pump
fist-pumper
fist-size
fist bump
fist bumped
fist bumping
fist bumps
fist jam

Literary usage of Fissuring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book of Land Drainage by Joseph Alexander Jeffery (1916)
"Injury to roots by fissuring. — When fissuring or cracking occurs in soils or subsoils already ... Crops, therefore, may suffer greatly from soil fissuring. ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1896)
"The Form of Fissure-Walls, as Affected by Sub- Fissuring, and by the Flow of Rocks. BY WILLIAM GLENN, BALTIMORE, MD, (Atlanta Meeting, October, 1895. ..."

3. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"Benny took his knife, and Ed-Fred-George coaxed Clarence into a slow, deep fissuring. They dragged the body into the earthy crack and Clarence swallowed up ..."

4. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"Shape and Relation to Fissuring.—At the high temperatures and pressures at which contact-metamorphic deposits are formed, ..."

5. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"Shape and Relation to Fissuring.—At the high temperatures and pressures at which contact-metamorphic deposits are formed, ..."

6. General Economic Geology: A Textbook by William Harvey Emmons (1922)
"... Influence of Rock Structure on Fissuring.—In some districts fissures show a strong tendency to follow bedding planes, planes of schistosity, ..."

7. Geology of Western Ore Deposits by Arthur Lakes (1905)
"fissuring. The vein, being a healed wound in the rocks, is a line of weakness particularly subject to attack, movement, re-opening or ..."

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