Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The production of fissures through strata.
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- verb Present participle of
fissure .
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Examples
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The grey-matter folding, or fissuring, you refer to is sometimes called sulsification.
What a Bunch of Apes! « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Discoveries in material science can now be incorporated through simulations into massive resolution speculations in architecture/urbanism/design, opening doors for weird synthesis and fissuring established preconceptions of what design could be.
Carla Leitao: Dustism, Creatures and Speculative Materialism in Architecture: An Interview With Alisa Andrasek/Biothing Carla Leitao 2012
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Whether a leaderless revolution will be able to create its own leadership without fissuring is another matter.
Arab revolutions: The limits of intervention | Editorial 2011
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Meanwhile, the fissuring of economic hegemony also threatens another set of ideas: theories of global convergence and of determinism, otherwise known as flat-earthism (danke, Thomas Friedman).
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Combined with our very obvious fiscal pressures fissuring both here and abroad, it's clear that major change is now in the winds.
Aerospace Industry On The Defensive Rick Whittington 2010
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Degreasing agents like soaps and shampoos if used too frequently over a short time will produce redness, dryness, fissuring and irritation of the skin in almost anyone.
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This condition starts with dryness and some redness on the skin, but it can progress to painful scaling that leads to fissuring and crusting.
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On the ground here, you can feel this society fissuring every day, as you watch the Americans desperately try to paper over the cracks.
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Treatment of Qi Stagnation is limited to no more than four treatments per episode for up to six meridians, with dry needles only, unless there is documentation of pulse diminishment or tongue changes such as fissuring.
Archive 2007-08-01 1 Dinosaur 2007
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Treatment of Qi Stagnation is limited to no more than four treatments per episode for up to six meridians, with dry needles only, unless there is documentation of pulse diminishment or tongue changes such as fissuring.
Be Careful What You Wish For 1 Dinosaur 2007
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As David Weil and others have explained, “fissuring” describes a reorganization of business activity that purports to disconnect “control” over work from legal “responsibility” for work-law compliance,3 through arrangements like “subcontracting, franchising, and supply-chain structures.”
Supply-Chain Wage Theft as Unfair Method of Competition Eamon Coburn 2025
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As David Weil and others have explained, “fissuring” describes a reorganization of business activity that purports to disconnect “control” over work from legal “responsibility” for work-law compliance,3 through arrangements like “subcontracting, franchising, and supply-chain structures.”
Supply-Chain Wage Theft as Unfair Method of Competition Eamon Coburn 2025
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