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meiosis
English
Alternative forms
- maiosis (archaic)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (meí?sis, “a lessening”), from ????? (meió?, “I lessen”), from ????? (meí?n, “less”). Coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiosis in an paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ma????s?s/
- Homophone: miosis
- Rhymes: -??s?s
Noun
meiosis (countable and uncountable, plural meioses)
- (countable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
- Synonym: understatement
- Antonyms: hyperbole, overstatement, exaggeration
- Hyponym: litotes
- 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:
- 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.
- (uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.
- Synonym: reduction division
- Antonym: mitosis
- Meronyms: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, reduction division, equation division
Derived terms
- meiotic
- meiotically
Translations
Further reading
- meiosis (figure of speech) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- meiosis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spanish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (meí?sis).
Noun
meiosis f (plural meiosis)
- (biology) meiosis
Further reading
- “meiosis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
meiosis From the web:
- what meiosis produces
- what meiosis means
- what meiosis starts in the gonadal cells
- what meiosis and mitosis
- what meiosis do
diplotene
English
Etymology
From French diplotène, corresponding to diplo- +? -tene.
Coined by Hans von De Winiwarter in 1900 and in English by Edmund B. Wilson in 1912.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?pl?ti?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d?pl??tin/
Noun
diplotene (plural diplotenes)
- (biology) The fourth stage of prophase of meiosis, during which homologous chromosome pairs begin to separate and chiasmata become visible
Synonyms
- diplonema
Translations
References
Anagrams
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