fission

fission is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.
2. noun. A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division.
3. noun. A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation.
4. noun. a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy
5. noun. reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts

Common word forms

fissions, fissional, fissioned, fissioning, fissionable

Words from these letters

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