meiosis
A figure of speech in which something is presented as smaller or less significant than…A figure of speech in which something is presented as smaller or less significant than it actually appears.
» Cells have two methods of reproduction: mitosis and meiosis.
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2 senses(countable, rhetoric, uncountable)A figure of speech in which something is presented as smaller or less significant than it actually appears.
(uncountable, usually)Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.
Meiose
мейо́зmejóz
(genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
Examples
1 sentencesCells have two methods of reproduction: mitosis and meiosis.
Translations
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Origin
From Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis, “a lessening”), from μειόω (meióō, “I lessen”), fromFrom Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis, “a lessening”), from μειόω (meióō, “I lessen”), from μείων (meíōn, “less”). The biological sense was coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiosis in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. Doublet of miosis.
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Forms
plural: meiosesSynonyms
4 synonyms- (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants):miosisreduction division
- understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary):litotes
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