meiosis
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meiosis
- /maɪˈəʊ.sɪs/ UK
- /maɪˈoʊ.sɪs/ US
- /meɪˈoʊ.sɪs/ Philippines
Sounds like miosis · Rhymes with -əʊsɪs
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis, “a lessening”), from μειόω (meióō, “I lessen”), from μείων (meíōn, “less”). The biological sense was coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiosis in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. Doublet of miosis.
noun meioses · maiosis · miosis
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A figure of speech in which something is presented as smaller or less significant than it actually appears.
I knew, with one of those secret knowledges that can exist between two people, that her suicide was a direct result of my having told her of my own attempt – I had told it with a curt meiosis that was meant to conceal depths; and she had called my bluff one final time.
Similar: understatement · Opposite: hyperbole, overstatement, exaggeration, auxesis
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Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.
Similar: reduction division
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noun cell division
| Español | meiosis |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 減数分裂 gensū bunretsu |
| 中文 | 減數分裂 /减数分裂 jiǎnshùfēnliè |
| हिन्दी | अर्धसूत्रण ardhsūtraṇ, अर्धसूत्री विभाजन ardhsūtrī vibhājan |
| Português | meiose, miose |
| Français | méiose |
| Deutsch | Meiose |
| Ελληνικά | μείωση meíosi |
| Русский | мейо́з mejóz |
| Tiếng Việt | giảm phân |
| עברית | מִיוֹזָה miyóza |
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title = {meiosis},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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