fission
/ˈfɪʃən/
fission noun: the process whereby one item splits to become two.
Noun
fission (countable and uncountable, plural fissions)
- The process whereby one item splits to become two.
- nuclear fission: The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles.
- The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells.
- Synonyms:
- fissiparism
Verb
fission (third-person singular simple present fissions, present participle fissioning, simple past and past participle fissioned)
fission meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
fission in Hindi
- process whereby one item splits to become two
- विखण्डन vikhaṇḍan, विखंडन vikhaṇḍan
- process by which a bacterium splits into two
- द्विखण्डन dvikhaṇḍan
fission in Tamil
- அணுப் பிளப்பு, அணுக்கருப்பிளவு, அணுப்பிளவு, பிளத்தல், பிளப்பு, கூறுபடல்
fission in Urdu
- fission
- انشقاق inśiqāq
fission in Bengali
- ফিশন
More languagesFewer languages
- fission in Malayalam
- പൊട്ടൽ, വിഘടനം, പിളർപ്പ്, വെടിക്കൽ
- fission in Kannada
- ಅಣುವಿದಳನ, ಸ್ಫೋಟನ, ಒಡೆಯುವಿಕೆ, ಬಿರುಕು
- fission in Odia
- ଫିଶନ୍
- fission in Arabic
- اِنْقِسَام inqisām, انقسام
Synonyms of fission
Forms of fission
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fissions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fissions |
| present participle | fissioning |
| past participle | fissioned |
| past | fissioned |
Origin of fission
Borrowed from Latin fissiōnem, accusative singular of fissiō (“the act of breaking up”), from findō (“split, divide”).
Words formed from fission
- atomic fission
- binary fission
- cytofission
- fiss
- fissile
- fissionability
- fissionable
- fissional
- fission bomb
- fission fragment
- fission-fusion society
- fissionist
- fissionless
- fissionlike
- fission product
- fission rocket
- hemifission
- induced fission
- karyofission
- nonfission
- nuclear fission
- photofission
- quasifission
- spontaneous fission
- nonfissioned
- nonfissioning
- unfissioned
Phrases with fission
Words that rhyme with fission
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about fission
- What does fission mean?
- Fission means the process whereby one item splits to become two.
- What is fission in Hindi?
- Fission in Hindi is विखण्डन (vikhaṇḍan), विखंडन (vikhaṇḍan), द्विखण्डन (dvikhaṇḍan). See Fission meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fission?
- Fission can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fission?
- Fission is pronounced /ˈfɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of fission?
- The plural of fission is fissions.
Words near fission in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fission (page history and authors); fission (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); انشقاق (Urdu) (page history and authors); fission (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fission (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); fission (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fission (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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