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Cleavage — Cleav age, n. 1. The act of cleaving or splitting. [1913 Webster] 2. (Crystallog.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fission — Fis sion, n. [L. fissio. See {Fissure}.] 1. A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts. [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self division, consisting… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
fission — 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
Cleavage furrow — In this electron micrograph of a cell, the cleavage furrow has nearly completely divided the cell … Wikipedia
fission — 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 … Medical dictionary
cleavage — Synonyms and related words: abscission, alienation, alpha decay, amputation, atom chipping, atom smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, beta decay, bombardment, breach, breach of friendship, break, breeding, bullet,… … Moby Thesaurus
fission — Synonyms and related words: ablate, abscission, accelerate, activate, alpha decay, amputation, atom chipping, atom smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, atomize, beta decay, bifurcate, bisect, bombard, bombardment, branch … Moby Thesaurus
cleavage — n 1. cleaving, splitting, halving, chopping, cutting, slashing; fission, partition, section; cleft, split, slit, fissure, rent, line of division; severance, sunder ance, bisection, bifidity, bifurcation, Obs. dimidiation. 2. division, separation … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
fission — n splitting, disjuncture, parting, division, scission, cleaving; rupture, break, cleavage, severance … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
Basal cleavage — Cleavage Cleav age, n. 1. The act of cleaving or splitting. [1913 Webster] 2. (Crystallog.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cell cleavage — Cleavage Cleav age, n. 1. The act of cleaving or splitting. [1913 Webster] 2. (Crystallog.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
