fission

English

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Nuclear fission

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fissiōnem, accusative singular of fissiō (“the act of breaking up”), from findō (“split, divide”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fĭsh'ən, fĭzh'ən, IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃən/, /ˈfɪʒən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪʃən, -ɪʒən

Noun

fission (countable and uncountable, plural fissions)

1. The process whereby one item splits to become two.
2. (nuclear physics) 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.

   Synonym: fissiparism

Derived terms

• atomic fission
• binary fission
• cytofission
• fiss
• fissile
• fissionability
• fissionable
• fissional
• fission bomb
• fission fragment
• fissionist
• fissionless
• fissionlike
• fission product
• fission rocket
• hemifission
• induced fission
• karyofission
• nonfission
• nuclear fission
• photofission
• quasifission
• spontaneous fission

Translations

process whereby one item splits to become two

Arabic: اِنْقِسَام (inqisām) Bulgarian: разцепване (bg) n (razcepvane) Chinese: Mandarin: 分裂 (zh) (fēnliè) Danish: fission (da) c, deling (da) c Dutch: splitsing (nl) f Finnish: fissio (fi), halkeaminen (fi), jakautuminen (fi) German: Spaltung (de) f Greek: διάσπαση (el) f (diáspasi) Hindi: विखण्डन m (vikhaṇḍan), विखंडन m (vikhaṇḍan) Hungarian: hasadás (hu) Icelandic: skipting Italian: fissione (it) f, divisione (it) f Japanese: 分裂 (ja) (ぶんれつ, bunretsu) Korean: 분열 (ko) (bunyeol) Maori: wehekarihi Mongolian: Cyrillic: хуваагдал (mn) (xuvaagdal) Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠪᠢᠶᠠᠭᠳᠠᠯ (qubiyaɣdal) Norwegian: spalting Bokmål: fisjon (no) m Nynorsk: fisjon m Polish: rozszczepienie (pl) n Portuguese: fissão (pt) f Romanian: fisiune (ro) Russian: расщепле́ние (ru) n (rasščeplénije) Spanish: fisión (es) f

process by which a bacterium splits into two

Arabic: انقسام Bulgarian: делене (bg) n (delene) Chinese: Mandarin: 分裂生殖 (zh) (fēnliè shēngzhí) Czech: štěpení (cs) n Danish: celledeling c Finnish: jakautuminen (fi) French: fission (fr) f, scissiparité (fr) f German: Zellteilung (de) f Greek: πυρηνοτομία f (pyrinotomía) Hindi: द्विखण्डन m (dvikhaṇḍan) Hungarian: osztódás (hu) Icelandic: skipting Polish: podział (pl) m Portuguese: fissão (pt) f Russian: деле́ние (ru) (delénije) Spanish: fisión (es) f

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.

Derived terms

• nonfissioned
• nonfissioning
• unfissioned

Translations

to cause to undergo fission

Finnish: fissioida French: fissionner (fr) German: spalten (de) Italian: fissionare Polish: rozszczepić Portuguese: fissionar Russian: расщеплять (ru) (rasščepljatʹ) Spanish: fisionar (es)

to undergo fission

Finnish: fissioitua Polish: rozszczepić się Russian: расщепляться (ru) (rasščepljatʹsja)

See also

• nucleomitophobia

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

fission

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Noun

fission c (singular definite fissionen, plural indefinite fissioner)

1. nuclear fission

   Synonym: kernespaltning

Declension

Declension of fission

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fission	fissionen	fissioner	fissionerne
genitive	fissions	fissionens	fissioners	fissionernes

Further reading

• “fission” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Noun

fission

1. genitive singular of fissio

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fissiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

fission f (plural fissions)

1. (chiefly physics) fission

Derived terms

• fission nucléaire

Further reading

• “fission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fission, from Latin fissiō, fissiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪˈɧuːn/

Noun

fission c

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

Declension

Declension of fission

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	fission	fissions
	definite	fissionen	fissionens
plural	indefinite	fissioner	fissioners
	definite	fissionerna	fissionernas

See also

• fusion

References

• fission in Svensk ordbok (SO)