different between abscission vs absciss

English

Etymology

From Latin abscissi?, from abscind? (“I cut, I tear”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?s?.?n?/, /æb?s?.?n?/

Noun

abscission (countable and uncountable, plural abscissions)

1. The act or process of cutting off.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.

2. (obsolete) The state of being cut off. [Attested only in the mid 17^th century.]
3. (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
4. (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole. [First attested in the late 19^th century.]

Usage notes

Not to be confused with abscision, which only is defined as the first sense.

Related terms

• abscise
• abscisic
• abscisic acid
• abscisin, abscissin

Translations

Anagrams

• abscisions

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap.si.sj??/

Noun

abscission f (plural abscissions)

1. (botany) abscission

Further reading

• “abscission” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

From Latin abscissa, feminine of abscissus, perfect passive participle of abscind? (“cut asunder”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æb.s?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æb.s?s/

Noun

absciss (plural abscisses)

1. Alternative form of abscissa [First attested in the late 17^th century.]

Etymology 2

Back-formation from abscission.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?s?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?s?s/

Verb

absciss (third-person singular simple present abscisses, present participle abscissing, simple past and past participle abscissed)

1. (transitive) To cut off by abscission. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]
2. (intransitive) To separate (as a leaf from a twig) by abscission. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]

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