Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of scission.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word scissions.

Examples

  • In addition to multiple scissions, my household also has duplicate basic tools, like hammer, measuring tape, screwdriver the kind which has a switchable head and box cutter.

    Uncluttering: One versus many | Unclutterer 2010

  • Only look through your leather-box one day with P.C.Q. about 4.32 or at 8 and 22.5 with the quart of scissions masters and clerk and the bevyhum of Marie

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Such scissions were almost painless in Apex, and he had fancied it would be easy, by an appeal to the girl's pride, to make her see that she owed it to herself to do better.

    The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

  • In a nutshell, the impasse of Labor politics, and the scissions the Labour movement has fallen prone to, is encapsulated in the events of this day.

    Larvatus Prodeo 2010

  • In a nutshell, the impasse of Labor politics, and the scissions the Labour movement has fallen prone to, is encapsulated in the events of this day.

    Larvatus Prodeo 2010

  • Mirault ME, Boucher P, Tremblay A (2006) Nucleotide-resolution mapping of topoisomerase-mediated and apoptotic DNA strand scissions at or near an MLL translocation hotspot.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • It was known that animal micro-organisms, unlike vegetable micro-organisms, after a cycle of life in which reproduction takes place by scission -- that is, by subdivision of a single body into several other bodies equal to the first, give place to _sexual forms_, masculine and feminine, which are separate, and incapable of scission, but are designed for _fusion into one another_, after which the organism recommences its cycle of scissions until it again reaches the sexual forms.

    Spontaneous Activity in Education Maria Montessori 1911

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.