fission
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Latin fissionem (“‘a breaking up’”), related to findere (“‘to split’”).
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fission (countable and uncountable; plural fissions)
- The process whereby one item splits to become two.
- (physics) The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles; nuclear fission
- (biology) The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells.
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process whereby one item splits to become two
process of splitting an atom
process by which a bacterium splits into two
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to fission (third-person singular simple present fissions, present participle fissioning, simple past and past participle fissioned)
- To cause to fission.
- To undergo fission.
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[edit] Finnish
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fission
- Genitive singular form of fissio.
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From Latin.
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fission f. (plural fissions)
- (chiefly physics) fission
