different between meiosis vs mitosis

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)

1. (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.

2. (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)

1. (biology) meiosis

Further reading

• “meiosis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From German Mitose, from Ancient Greek ????? (mítos, “thread”) + -osis, probably in reference to the thread-like chromatin seen during mitosis.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ma??to?s?s/
• Rhymes: -??s?s

Noun

mitosis (countable and uncountable, plural mitoses)

1. (cytology) The division of a cell nucleus in which the genome is copied and separated into two identical halves. It is normally followed by cell division.

Synonyms

• karyokinesis
• karyomitosis

Meronyms

• prophase
• metaphase
• anaphase
• telophase

Derived terms

• mitotic
• mitotically
• transmitosis

Translations

See also

• meiosis

Spanish

Noun

mitosis f (plural mitosis)

1. (cytology) mitosis