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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
James Buchan

Meaning of "fission" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FISSION

From Latin fissiō a cleaving.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FISSION

fission  [ˈfɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FISSION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fission is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FISSION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fission

Fission is a splitting of something into two or more parts. Fission may refer to: ▪ Fission, the subdivision of a cell or multi-cellular body into one or more parts and the regeneration of each part into a complete individual. ▪ Nuclear fission, where a large atomic nucleus is split into two smaller nuclei. ▪ Another name for secession, the process whereby a nation-state divides into multiple states.

Definition of fission in the English dictionary

The definition of fission in the dictionary is the act or process of splitting or breaking into parts. Other definition of fission is a form of asexual reproduction in single-celled animals and plants involving a division into two or more equal parts that develop into new cells.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FISSION


photofission
ˌfəʊtəʊˈfɪʃən
PlayStation
ˈpleɪˌsteɪʃən
population
ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən
position
pəˈzɪʃən
preparation
ˌprɛpəˈreɪʃən
presentation
ˌprɛzənˈteɪʃən
publication
ˌpʌblɪˈkeɪʃən
recognition
ˌrɛkəɡˈnɪʃən
recreation
ˌrɛkrɪˈeɪʃən
registration
ˌrɛdʒɪˈstreɪʃən
relation
rɪˈleɪʃən
reputation
ˌrɛpjʊˈteɪʃən
situation
ˌsɪtjʊˈeɪʃən
station
ˈsteɪʃən
submission
səbˈmɪʃən
tradition
trəˈdɪʃən
translation
trænsˈleɪʃən
transmission
trænzˈmɪʃən
transportation
ˌtrænspɔːˈteɪʃən
vacation
vəˈkeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FISSION

fissicostate
fissile
fissilingual
fissility
fission bomb
fission product
fission reactor
fission-fusion bomb
fission-track dating
fissionability
fissionable
fissional
fissioned
fissipalmate
fissiparism
fissiparity
fissiparous
fissiparously
fissiparousness
fissiped

WORDS THAT END LIKE FISSION

admission
commission
compassion
compression
confession
conversion
depression
discussion
emission
expression
impression
mission
obsession
passion
percussion
possession
pression
profession
progression
session
suppression

Synonyms and antonyms of fission in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FISSION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «fission» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of fission

Translation of «fission» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FISSION

Find out the translation of fission to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fission from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fission» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

裂变
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fisión
570 millions of speakers

English

fission
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विखंडन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الانشطار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

деления
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fissão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিদারণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fission
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pembelahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Spaltung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

核分裂
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

핵분열
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fisi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sanh sản phân thể
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிளப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फूट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fizyon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scissione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Rozszczepienie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ділення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fisiune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σχάση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fisie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

klyvning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fisjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fission

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FISSION»

The term «fission» is quite widely used and occupies the 38.701 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FISSION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fission

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5 QUOTES WITH «FISSION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fission.
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James Buchan
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
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Enrico Fermi
The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.
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Wilson Greatbatch
France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.
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Wilson Greatbatch
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.
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Wilson Greatbatch
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FISSION»

Discover the use of fission in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fission and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Nuclear Fission Process
This text provides a comprehensive review of knowledge regarding nuclear fission from both the purely scientific and practical points of view.
Cyriel Wagemans, 1991
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Fission
Confronting her is the novel's narrator, a mathematician born on the day of Meitner's flight. Like Meitner (and like author Helga Konigsdorf), she suffers from a degenerative disease.
Helga Königsdorf, 2000
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Sustainable and Safe Nuclear Fission Energy: Technology and ...
Unlike existing books of nuclear reactor physics, nuclear engineering and nuclear chemical engineering this book covers a complete description and evaluation of nuclear fission power generation.
Günter Kessler, 2012
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Statistics for Fission Track Analysis
An appendix provides general notes on statistical concepts and methods. Designed for broad accessibility, this is the first book to fully cover the statistical foundations of fission track analysis.
Rex F. Galbraith, 2005
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Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Culture Studies
Thus Genre Fission attains what Barr herself designates (in describing the art of Judy Chicago and Lee Bontecou) as "utopian interweavings of difference," crossing numerous boundaries in order to frame a larger territory for exploration.
Marleen S. Barr, 1998
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Theory of Nuclear Fission: A Textbook
Recounting nearly 70 years of research progress, this book presents models describing the fission process of hot nuclei, and the spontaneous fission of cold nuclei and their isomers.
Hans J. Krappe, Krzysztof Pomorski, 2012
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Proceedings of the International Workshop Fission Dynamics ...
In this volume, the main results of the last sixty years of research in nuclear fission are summarized, showing how ideas advanced from the beginning, for nuclei have also found useful applications in the new area of atomic clusters.
‎2001
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Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to ...
Brief biographies of great chemists, from Trevisan and Paracelsus to Bohr and Lawrence, provide a survey of the discoveries and advances that shaped modern chemistry
Bernard Jaffe, 1976
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Fission Factor
But what's poised and ready to drop is something that'll shake your faith in all things holy. The final domino, the Fission Factor.
"Lonesome" Lee West, 2012
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Physics and Chemistry of Fission: Proceedings of the XVIIIth ...
Contents: Fission Fragment Distributions: Experiment and Theory -- Fission Barriers, Fission Channels, Fission Valleys; Fragment Charge Distributions in Low Energy Fission; Double-Energy, Double-Velocity Measurement of Fission Fragments ...
H. Märten, Dieter Seeliger, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FISSION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fission is used in the context of the following news items.
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Boeing patents laser-powered fusion-fission jet engine for airplanes …
Boeing has received a patent for, I kid you not, a laser-powered fusion-fission jet propulsion system. Boeing envisions that this system could ... «Ars Technica UK, Jul 15»
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Fission Uranium's $900-million deal
Kelowna-based Fission Uranium is merging with Toronto-based Denison Mines to create a Canadian uranium powerhouse with a market ... «The Daily Courier, Jul 15»
3
Finding love and work in a laboratory of fission and fusion
Judy and Joe Sul worked and met at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1960s and '70s, when the Cold War was on and the bomb was ... «TriValley Central, Jul 15»
4
Impulsive Penny Stocks - Baltia Air Lines (BLTA), FISSION
Las Vegas, NV – JULY, 11, 2015 — (Tech Sonian) – Baltia Air Lines Inc (OTCMKTS:BLTA) declared that its cabin crewmembers have ... «Techsonian, Jul 15»
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Horace Parlan, a tribute to a jazz legend
Destroyer Of Worlds (Saturday, 8pm, Radio 4) tells the profoundly educational story of how British advances in nuclear fission during the 1930s ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Faces of Faith: A life of discovery and tradition
I studied high energy nuclear fission and nuclear reactions by protons, antiprotons, and pi-mesons using the particle accelerator at BNL. «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»
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Science book review: 'Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the …
Livermore helped develop the hydrogen bomb, more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki fission bombs and the weapon that escalated ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
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The Big Read: Waiting for terror - The plan for the next 7/7
... was that of a dirty bomb, or radiological device, which does not achieve fission or fusion but uses explosive to disperse radioactive material. «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
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Fission Uranium: 3 Upside Scenarios In A Market Poised For …
Fission Uranium (OTCQX:FCUUF) is a junior uranium mining company primarily focused on the acquisition and exploration of Canadian ... «Seeking Alpha, Jul 15»
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Denison, Fission see merger as unique opportunity in 'depressed …
Handout/ Fission Uranium Corp.Fission's Patterson Lake South (PLS) project (pictured) and Denison's Wheeler River project are two of the best ... «Financial Post, Jul 15»

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