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Fission   /fˈɪʃən/   Listen
Fission

noun
1.
Reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts.
2.
A nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy.  Synonym: nuclear fission.



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"Fission" Quotes from Famous Books



... as the industrial process is enhanced in productivity by the concentration on it of the higher faculties of mankind, there is an increasing fission of this process as a whole into two kinds of activity represented by two different groups. We have no longer merely—although we have this still—an increasing division of labour; but we have the labourers of all kinds and grades separating themselves into one group on the one ...
— A Critical Examination of Socialism • William Hurrell Mallock


Words linked to "Fission" :   agamogenesis, nuclear reaction, asexual reproduction, nuclear fission, schizogony


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