scission

Via Middle English and Old French, from Late Latin scissio, scissionem, from Latin scindere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.ʒən/, /ˈsɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɪʒən, -ɪʃən

scission (countable and uncountable, plural scissions)

1. The act of division, separation, cutting, cleaving, or severing; cleavage.
   • 2012, Harvey Lodish, Arnold Berk, Chris A. Kaiser, Loose-leaf Version for Molecular Cell Biology, page 455:

     The resulting delamination of the two lipid monolayers causes a “lens” to form, the further growth of which creates a spherical droplet that is then released by scission at the neck.

Via Old French, from Late Latin scissiōnem, from Latin scindere.

• IPA^(key): /si.sjɔ̃/

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scission f (plural scissions)

1. schism

• scissionner

• scinder

• “scission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.