2. Verb. (third-person singular of fissure) ¹
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Definition of Fissures
1. fissure [v] - See also: fissure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fissures
Literary usage of Fissures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"Some authorities deny that the fissures and gyres of the human brain can be ...
In the higher forms of quadrupeds, fissures and gyres are arranged in ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"If the arachnoid and pia mater are removed, the entire surface of each hemisphere
will be seen to present a number of depressions (fissures and sulci) ..."
3. The Nature of Ore Deposits by Richard Beck (1905)
"To a much wider extent fissures result from general mountain building forces,
and may then be called, following Stelzner, ..."
4. Geology of Petroleum by William Harvey Emmons (1921)
"RESERVOIRS FORMED BY fissures Practically all consolidated rocks are jointed,
and many of them are appreciably fractured. The earlier investigators of oil ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"In the accompanying table the fissures are grouped according to their strike ...
Probably the earliest and the only certain pre-mineral fissures that in no ..."
6. Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student by William Herbert Hobbs (1912)
"Arrangement of volcanic vents along fissures and especially at their intersections.
— Within those districts in which volcanoes Fio. 91. ..."
7. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1908)
"Finally, in grade X of the scale, fissures in the ground are taken as a criterion
of the highest grade of intensity, when in reality such fissures have ..."
8. An Introduction to Geology: Intended to Convey a Practical Knowledge of the by Robert Bakewell, Benjamin Silliman (1833)
"Bones found in the Clefts and fissures of. Rocks forming Osseous Breccia in
various Paris ... BESIDE tlie fissures and spaces filled with metallic matter, ..."
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