scission
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 8
/ˈsɪ.ʒən/
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/ˈsɪ.ʒən/ · /ˈsɪ.ʃən/
Definition of scission
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)The act of division, separation, cutting, cleaving, or severing; cleavage.
“The resulting delamination of the two lipid monolayers causes a “lens” to form, the further growth of which creates a spherical droplet that is then released by scission at the neck.”
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Etymology
Via Middle English and Old French, from Late Latin scissio, scissionem, from Latin scindere.
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