different between fission vs halve

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

Etymology

From Middle English halven, helven, from Old English hilfan, helfan, *hielfan (“to halve, divide in two”), from Proto-West Germanic *halbijan, from Proto-Germanic *halbijan? (“to halve”), from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch halven (“to halve”), Middle High German halben, helben (“to halve”). Compare also West Frisian helte (“to halve”), Dutch halveren (“to halve”), German Low German halberen (“to halve”), German halbieren (“to halve”), Danish halvere (“to halve”), Swedish halvera (“to halve”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??v/
• Rhymes: -??v
• (US) enPR: h?v, IPA^(key): /hæv/
• Rhymes: -æv
• Homophone: have (some accents)

Verb

halve (third-person singular simple present halves, present participle halving, simple past and past participle halved)

1. (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
2. (transitive) To divide into two halves.
3. (transitive) To make up half of.
   • 1855, Matthew Arnold, Faded Leaves

     So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.

4. (architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
5. (golf, transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.

Synonyms

• (to divide into two halves): dichotomize, dimidiate; see also Thesaurus:bisect

Translations

Anagrams

• Havel, Vahle

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?halv?], [?hall?]

Adjective

halve

1. plural and definite singular attributive of halv

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l.v?/

Adjective

halve

1. Inflected form of half

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

halve (plural halves or halven)

1. Alternative form of half

Etymology 2

From Old English helfe.

Noun

halve

1. Alternative form of helve

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

halve

1. definite singular of halv
2. plural of halv

Etymology 2

From Old Norse halfa

Noun

halve f or m (definite singular halva or halven, indefinite plural halver, definite plural halvene)

1. (a) half

Synonyms

• halvdel
• halvpart

References

• “halve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Adjective

halve

1. definite singular of halv
2. plural of halv

Etymology 2

From Old Norse halfa.

Noun

halve f (definite singular halva, indefinite plural halver, definite plural halvene)

1. a half

Synonyms

• halvdel
• halvpart

References

• “halve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.