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Definition meiosis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (meí?sis, “a lessening”), from ????? (meió?, “I lessen”), from ????? (meí?n, “less”). Coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiosis in an paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year.

Noun

meiosis (countable and uncountable, plural meioses)

  1. (countable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is; understatement.
  2. (uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.

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ESS 3
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