Definitions for fissions

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fissions fis·sion

Spelling: [fish-uh n]

IPA: /ˈfɪʃ ən/

Fissions is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in fissions (fiinosss).

Definitions for fissions

noun

1. the act of cleaving or splitting into parts.
2. Also called nuclear fission. Physics. the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into nuclei of lighter atoms, accompanied by the release of energy. Compare fusion (def 4).
3. Biology. the division of an organism into new organisms as a process of reproduction.
4. the act of cleaving or splitting into parts.
5. Also called nuclear fission. Physics. the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into nuclei of lighter atoms, accompanied by the release of energy. Compare fusion (def 4).
6. Biology. the division of an organism into new organisms as a process of reproduction.

verb (used with object)

1. Physics. to cause to undergo fission.
2. Physics. to cause to undergo fission.

verb (used without object)

1. Physics. to undergo fission.
2. Physics. to undergo fission.

Origin of fissions

1835-45; Latin fissiōn- (stem of fissiō) a splitting, dividing, equivalent to fiss(us) divided (see fissi-) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for fissions

At the instant of fission, some 75 radionuclides, or fission products, are created.

One of the isotopes of fission products, when fuel melts, is an iodine isotope, and it goes in your body through your thyroid.

It will be found full of septic vibrios in process of generation by fission.

The amœba, like other one-celled organisms, reproduces by the process of fission.

Any atom might be hit, blazing, into fission and decaying into other elements.

As already said, the lowest form of reproduction is that by fission.

They are contractile, and propagated by spontaneous division, or fission.

Just as the life of a man is only the fission of two amœbas on a larger scale.

The multiplication of the amba is brought about by a process of fission or division.

The foraminifer multiplies by fission, or by a process of budding.

The amœba, like other one-celled organisms, reproduces by the process of fission.

As already said, the lowest form of reproduction is that by fission.

The multiplication of the amba is brought about by a process of fission or division.

Just as the life of a man is only the fission of two amœbas on a larger scale.

One of the isotopes of fission products, when fuel melts, is an iodine isotope, and it goes in your body through your thyroid.

It will be found full of septic vibrios in process of generation by fission.

At the instant of fission, some 75 radionuclides, or fission products, are created.

Any atom might be hit, blazing, into fission and decaying into other elements.

The foraminifer multiplies by fission, or by a process of budding.

They are contractile, and propagated by spontaneous division, or fission.