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Definition of Fission
1. Noun. Reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts.
2. Noun. A nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy.
Definition of Fission
1. n. A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.
Definition of Fission
1. Noun. The process whereby one item splits to become two. ¹
2. Noun. (physics) The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles; nuclear fission ¹
3. Noun. (biology) The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells. ¹
4. Verb. To cause to undergo fission. ¹
5. Verb. (intransitive) To undergo fission. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fission
1. to split into parts [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Fission
1. A type of cell division in which overall (i.e., not localised) cell growth is followed by septum formation which typically divides the fully grown cell into two similar or identical cells. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fission
Literary usage of Fission
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nuclear Energy Today by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2003)
"Basic Principles of Nuclear Energy Nuclear fission is a type of nuclear reaction
... When a nucleus undergoes fission it releases energy, most of which is ..."
2. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"We are particularly well acquainted with these processes of regeneration — which
may either precede or succeed fission — in the case of various kinds of ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"The following Papers were read :— 1. Dimorphism in Foraminifera. liy JJ LISTER,
FRS 2. The Relation of Binary fission and Conjugation to Variation. £yj. ..."
4. Basic Studies in the Field of High-Temperature Engineering: Third by Nuclear Energy Agency, Nihon Genshiryoku Kenkyūjo (2004)
"The radioprotection issue underlines the importance of being able to model and
estimate the release of fission products by the fuel. fission product release ..."
5. General pathology, or, The science of the causes, nature and course of the by Ernst Ziegler (1899)
"The power to produco fermentation—ie, decomposition—in the nutrient fluid is very
likely not only a property of fission-fungi and yeast-fungi, ..."
6. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"After these and other changes are effected, the creature is ripe for fission ;
the plane of division lies between the two ..."
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