fissurationn.
/fɪʃjʊˈreɪʃən/ 1. The action of fissuring or splitting asunder; the state of being fissured or cleft.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > [noun] > action, fact, or state of being cleft
fissure1633
diffission1727
fissuration1864
cleavage1867
split1898
1864 Intellectual Observer No. 33. 193 A slight fissuration of the caudal end.
1887 Amer. Jrnl. Psych. 1 342 Whether fissuration be due to mechanical causes or [etc.].
2. Biology. = fission n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > by division
fission1846
scissiparity1857
fissiparation1864
fissuration1867
fissiparism1868
fissiparity1872
cleavage1876
fragmentation1881
schizogony1887
blastogenesis1889
nuclear fission1889
schizogenesis1891
transfission1891
heterokinesis1893
homoeokinesis1893
multiple fission1896
binary fission1897
plasmotomy1902
1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) ii. ii. 403 The multiplication of the species is effected in some by spontaneous division or fissuration.
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fissuration.
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