Usually means: Capable of sustaining nuclear fission.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word fissile:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. fissile: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fissile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fissile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fissile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fissile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fissile, fissile: Wordnik
  7. fissile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fissile: Wiktionary
  9. fissile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fissile: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Fissile, fissile: Dictionary.com
  12. Fissile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Fissile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. fissile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. fissile: Rhymezone
  16. Fissile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. fissile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. fissile: Free Dictionary
  19. fissile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. fissile: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. fissile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fissile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fissile: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Fissile: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nuclear Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Able to be split.
adjective:  (geology) Easily split along a grain.
adjective:  (physics) Capable of sustaining a nuclear fission chain reaction.

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