different between fission vs fissive

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fissi?nem, accusative singular of fissi? (“the act of breaking up”), from find? (“split, divide”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?sh'?n, f?zh'?n, IPA^(key): /?f???n/, /?f???n/
• Rhymes: -???n, -???n

Noun

fission (countable and uncountable, plural fissions)

1. The process whereby one item splits to become two.
2. (physics) Short for nuclear fission: The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles.
3. (biology) The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fission (third-person singular simple present fissions, present participle fissioning, simple past and past participle fissioned)

1. (transitive) To cause to undergo fission.
2. (intransitive) To undergo fission.

Translations

See also

• nucleomitophobia

Finnish

Noun

fission

1. Genitive singular form of fissio.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fissi?, fissi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.sj??/

Noun

fission f (plural fissions)

1. (chiefly physics) fission

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fission, from Latin fissi?, fissi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???u?n/

Noun

fission c

1. (physics) nuclear fission
2. The process whereby a company splits to become two.

Declension

See also

• fusion

References

• fission in Svensk ordbok (SO)

English

Adjective

fissive (comparative more fissive, superlative most fissive)

1. Of or pertaining to fission.