单词 | scission |
释义 | scissionn. 1. Division of a previously united body of people into mutually opposing parties; a split, a schism.In quot. 1443: spec. = schism n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > schism > [noun] schismacy1387 schism1390 scission1443 segregationa1555 concision1557 scissure1566 formal schism1641 secession1660 society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > division or lack of unity unoning1340 schism1390 division1393 departmentc1450 rupture1583 secting1598 disunion1601 twine1606 section1639 distermination1647 scission1736 cleavage1867 non-union1909 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [noun] > a break in continuity interruption1390 breach1589 hiatus1613 chasm1654 solution of continuity1654 gap1670 caesura1846 break-in1856 breakage1871 scission1884 time out1892 1443 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1443/11/3 Alsua at ferme and fast obedience be kepit til our haly fadir the pape Eugene... And at rigorouse processis be maid agaynis the favoraris of scissione and the agaynstandaris of the saide obedience. 1736 Ld. Hervey Mem. 252 A scission (which is the term the Poles have to express an election decided by arms and not by voices). 1798 T. Jefferson Writings (1853) IV. 246 If on a temporary superiority of the one party, the other is to resort to a scission of the Union, no federal government can ever exist. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. iii. 159 Things ripen towards downright incompatibility, and what is called ‘scission’. 1884 P. G. Hamerton Human Intercourse vi. 97 The scission had been made; there was an end of real intercourse between father and son. 1927 B. Vanzetti Let. 22 May in N. Sacco & B. Vanzetti Lett. (1997) ii. iv. 266 At the Utica Congress came the scission between ‘syndicalists’ and ‘socialists’. 1997 D. Moss in D. J. Whittaker Terrorism Reader (2002) xiv. 214 The kidnapping ritual revealed very clearly the divisions of various kinds..leading to the first public scission from the group. 2. The action of undergoing division; an instance of this. Also: a rent, a fissure. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > [noun] > a division formed by cleaving cleftc1374 cleavingc1400 scissure?a1425 clefture1540 hag1568 scission1578 clovec1593 split1598 cliff1605 fissure1609 dispartment1672 cleave1874 split1875 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 74v [The] Panchreas..circumposed to the singular scissions of the vesselles. 1642 N. N. P. tr. J. D. Du Perron Luthers Alcoran i. xi. 47 Then also, there was a Concussion of the Earth, and Scission of the stones. 1766 J. Cleland Way to Things by Words 55 A shock of so tremendous a nature as that which could produce such a scission it might extend its violence to the dividing Ireland from Britain. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. Introd. 25 Mix them, and you have an animal which begins to absorb fluid, and..multiplies itself by scissions or germes. 1887 R. L. Stevenson Markheim in Merry Men 123 He feared..some scission in the continuity of man's experience. 2000 J. Sherwin Definitive Star Trek Trivia Bk. I. iv. 83 In ‘Deadlock’, a spatial scission had what effect on Voyager and its crew? 3. The action of cutting something. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] bita1000 kerfc1000 slittingc1175 carving?c1225 chop1362 cuttinga1398 hacking1398 scissure?a1425 garsingc1440 racing?a1450 incision1474 secting1507 raze1530 chopping1548 scotching1551 hackling1564 slashing1596 carbonadoing1599 kinsing1599 insection1653 secation1656 scission1676 gash1694 inciding1694 haggling1761 cut1808 shear1809 carve1888 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [noun] partinga1382 distinctiona1387 partition1517 quartering1555 distincting1570 distinguishing1587 dividedness1656 scission1676 dismembering1677 dismemberment1727 splitting1737 repulsion1771 dipartition1838 splitting1847 piecemealing1853 diaeresis1856 fission1865 split-up1878 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. v. iii. 357 Nerves may be many ways wounded, viz. by Scission or Puncture. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 108 Hardness is properly that sort of cohesion that resists division by abrasion, or scission, its opposite is softness. 1899 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 272 The chirurgeons' abhorred instruments of probing and scission. 2009 H. Gottfried & J. Jennings Amer. Vernacular Buildings & Interiors iv. 51/1 Scission entails cutting the fibers across the grain. 4. a. Chemistry. Breakage of a bond, esp. in a long-chain polymer so as to produce two shorter chains; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical bonding > [noun] > breakage of bond scission1859 1859 Chem. Gaz. 1 Oct. 378 The scission of diatomic ethylene into two monatomic molecules may take place in many other ways. 1895 J. M. Thomson & A. G. Bloxam Bloxam's Chem. (ed. 8) 270 The particles produced by the scission of the molecules were the true indivisibles, or Dalton's atoms. 1923 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 123 i. 85 The scission of the ring..with elimination of nitrogen seems possible. 1962 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 237 819/1 This enzyme produces scissions at many points along the deoxyribonucleic acid chain. 2006 Science 19 May 1024 Efforts to achieve selective bond scission by vibrational excitation have been thwarted by energy thermalization. b. Nuclear Physics. The event of separation of the parts of a nucleus undergoing fission, as opposed to the process as a whole. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > [noun] > separation of parts scission1956 1956 Physical Rev. 102 440/1 The corresponding deformed shape roughly approximates the egg-shaped fragment resulting from scission of a dumbbell-shaped parent nucleus. 1975 Physics Bull. July 307/1 Dr Specht..concentrated on a description of those fission phenomena which seem to be decided by conditions in the nucleus at the time of scission rather than at the saddle point. 2012 Jrnl. Physics G 39 055103 The obtained fragment excitation energies, as the sum of deformation and excitation energy components at scission, are then used. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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