meiosis

Definition of Meiosis in English :

Noun

1. meiosis, miosis, reduction division

(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)

2. litotes, meiosis

understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)

Example Sentences:
'saying I was not a little upset' when you mean I was very upset' is an example of litotes'

litotes

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

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noun plural -ses (-ˌsiːz)

1.

a type of cell division in which a nucleus divides into four daughter nuclei, each containing half the chromosome number of the parent nucleus: occurs in all sexually reproducing organisms in which haploid gametes or spores are produced

Compare mitosis, See also prophase (sense 2)

2. rhetoric another word for litotes

Meiosis

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noun

1.

the process of two consecutive nuclear divisions in the formation of germ cells in animals and of spores in most plants, by which the number of chromosomes ordinarily is reduced from the diploid, or double, number found in somatic cells to the haploid, or halved, number found in gametes and in spores

Meiosis

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n. pl. mei·o·ses (-sēz′)

1. Genetics The process of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that reduces the number of chromosomes from diploid to haploid, as in the production of gametes.

2. Rhetorical understatement.

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