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SCISSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scissure mean? 

SCISSURE (noun)
  The noun SCISSURE has 1 sense:

1. a long narrow openingplay

  Familiarity information: SCISSURE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCISSURE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A long narrow opening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cleft; crack; crevice; fissure; scissure

Hypernyms ("scissure" is a kind of...):

gap; opening (an open or empty space in or between things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scissure"):

chap (a crack in a lip caused usually by cold)

chink (a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall)

crevasse (a deep fissure)

fatigue crack (a crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue)

break; fault; faulting; fracture; geological fault; shift ((geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other)

rift (a narrow fissure in rock)

slit (a narrow fissure)

split (a lengthwise crack in wood)

vent; volcano (a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt)


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