a long, narrow opening or line of breakage made by cracking or splitting, especially in rock or earth (岩石、地面上的)开口;裂缝 ■(chiefly Anatomy)a long narrow opening in the form of a crack or groove, e.g. any of the spaces separating convolutions of the brain (主剖)(大脑的)裂,裂纹,沟 ■a state of incompatibility or disagreement 不合,分歧;冲突 the fissure between private sector business and the newly expanding public sector. 私有经济与新近日益壮大的公有经济之间的冲突。
verb
[with obj.][usu. as adj. fissured]split or crack (something) to form a long narrow opening 使开裂;使分裂 low cliffs of fissured Silurian rock. 开裂的志留纪岩石形成的低矮峭壁。
语源
late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin fissura, from findere 'to split'