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fissure

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fissure /ˈfɪʃə/

▶noun

1 a long, narrow crack.

2 a state of division or disagreement.

▶verb (usu. as adj. fissured) split; crack.

– origin ME: from OFr., or from L. fissura, from fiss-, findere ‘to split’.

'fissure' also found in these Oxford entries:

chasm - cleft - crevice - grike - lava - portal - rille - sand crack - split - Sylvian fissure

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Fissure [figurative use?]
flaw vs fault/gap/cleft/fissure
to prevent the wheels from the fissure?

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