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fission

noun
/ˈfɪʃən/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fissiōnem, accusative singular of fissiō (“the act of breaking up”), from findō (“split, divide”).

  1. borrowed from fissiōnem

Definitions

  1. The process whereby one item splits to become two.

  2. nuclear fission

    nuclear fission: The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles.

  3. The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To cause to undergo fission.

    2. To undergo fission.

The neighborhood

Derived

atomic fission, binary fission, cytofission, fiss, fissile, fissionability, fissionable, fissional, fission bomb, fission fragment, fission-fusion society, fissionist, fissionless, fissionlike, fission product, fission rocket, hemifission, induced fission, karyofission, nonfission, nuclear fission, photofission, quasifission, spontaneous fission, nonfissioned, nonfissioning, unfissioned

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fission. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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