Fission

  • 11fission — fission. = division (см.). (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …

    Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • 12fission — index severance Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 13fission — 1841, division of a cell or organism, from L. fissionem (nom. fissio) a breaking up, cleaving, from pp. stem of findere to split (see FISSURE (Cf. fissure)). Cognate with O.E. bitan to bite. Nuclear physics sense is 1939. As a verb, from 1929 …

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  • 14fission — /fish euhn/, n. 1. the act of cleaving or splitting into parts. 2. Also called nuclear fission. Physics. the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into nuclei of lighter atoms, accompanied by the release of energy. Cf. fusion (def. 4). 3. Biol. the …

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  • 15fission — 1. The act of splitting, e.g., amitotic division of a cell or its nucleus. 2. Splitting of the nucleus of an atom. [L. fissio, a cleaving, fr. findo, pp. fissus, to cleave] binary f. simple f. in which the two new cells are approximately equal in …

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  • 16Fission — Atomspaltung; Kernspaltung; Zellteilung * * * Fis|si|on 〈f. 20; fachsprachl. Bez. für〉 Spaltung (z. B. Kernspaltung) [<lat. fissio „das Spalten, Zerteilen“] * * * Fis|si|on, die; , en: 1. [lat. fissio = das Spalten] (Biol.) Teilung einzelliger …

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  • 17fission — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cleavage, scission, disjunction; nuclear fission, splitting the atom, atom smashing. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. splitting, cleavage, parting; see division 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 18fission — I. noun Etymology: Latin fission , fissio, from findere to split more at bite Date: circa 1617 1. a splitting or breaking up into parts 2. reproduction by spontaneous division of the body into two or more parts each of which grows into a complete …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 19fission — 1. noun a) The process whereby one item splits to become two. b) The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles; nuclear fission 2. verb a) To cause to undergo …

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  • 20Fission — 1Fis|si|on die; , en <aus lat. fissio »das Spalten, Zerteilen«> Teilung einzelliger pflanzlicher u. tierischer Organismen in zwei gleiche Teile (Biol.). Fission 2 2Fis|si|on die; , en <aus gleichbed. engl. (nuclear) fission, dies aus lat …

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