meiosis

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

meiosesmaiosismiosis

1.
(countable, rhetoric, uncountable)A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
Đồng nghĩa: understatement
2.
(uncountable, usually)(usually uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.
Đồng nghĩa: reduction division

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Đồng nghĩa

understatementreduction division

Trái nghĩa

hyperbole overstatement exaggerationauxesismitosis

Cùng gốc / liên quan

apomeiosismeiomepostmeiosispremeiosismeiotic meiotically

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Ancient Greek μείωσις (a lessening), from μειόω (I lessen), from μείων (less). The biological sense was John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore, 1905 as maiosis in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. miosis.