fission

1. n. A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts. Source: opted

2. n. A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division. Source: opted

3. n. A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation. Source: opted

4. n. reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts Source: wordnet

5. n. a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy Source: wordnet

6. 1. A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts. 2. (Biol.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division. 3. (Zoöl.) A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation. Source: webster

7. A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular)organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting ofgradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of whichthen becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell inan animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division,and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division,under Division. Source: adambom

8. n:100 n. reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts n. a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy Source: ecdict

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