meiosis

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

méiose

litote

division réductionnelle

Opposé de

hyperbole, overstatement, exaggeration, auxesis

Synonymes

miosis

reduction division

litotes

reductional division

mitosis

division

maiosis

Traductions

Meiose

meiosis

meiosi

meiosi

meiose

meiose

μείωση

mayoz

mayoz bölünme

miose

إنتصاف

meiòsi

litote

meiosis

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/maɪˈəʊ.sɪs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From 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 by 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.