Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Reducible to powder; capable of being crushed or ground to powder.
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Examples
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Nothing soft is fissile (by soft I mean absolutely soft and not relatively: for iron itself may be relatively soft); nor are all hard things fissile, but only such as are neither liquid nor impressible nor comminuible.
Meteorology 2002
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Now those solids that have many pores not communicating with one another are comminuible (for the limit to their subdivision is set by the pores), but those whose pores stretch continuously for a long way are breakable, while those which have pores of both kinds are both comminuible and breakable.
Meteorology 2002
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