fission
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fissiōnem, accusative singular of fissiō ("the act of breaking up"), from findō ("split, divide").
Pronunciation- enPR: fĭsh'ən, fĭzh'ən, IPA: /ˈfɪʃən/, /ˈfɪʒən/
fission
- The process whereby one item splits to become two.
- (nuclear physics) Short for nuclear fission: The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles.
- (biology) The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells.
- Synonyms: fissiparism
- French: fission, scissiparité
- German: Zellteilung
- Portuguese: fissão
- Russian: деле́ние
- Spanish: fisión
fission (fissions, present participle fissioning; simple past and past participle fissioned)
- (transitive) To cause to undergo fission.
- (intransitive) To undergo fission.
- French: fissionner
- German: spalten
- Italian: fissionare
- Portuguese: fissionar
- Russian: расщепле́ние
- Spanish: fisionar
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