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n. Genetics The process of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that reduces the number of chromosomes in reproductive cells from diploid to haploid, leading to the production of gametes in animals and spores in plants.

n. Rhetorical understatement.

n. A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.

n. Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.

n. Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is; understatement; see also litotes.

n. The cellular process by which a diploid progenitor cell forms haploid gametes, including a division of one diploid cell into two cells, each with one of the homologous sets of chromosomes.

n. understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)

n. (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)

"My own mnemonic system depends on the fact that the word meiosis has been “reduced,” from mitosis, to the extent of not containing the letter t."

hyperbole    mitosis    auxesis    litotes    paradiastole   

rhetorical device    understatement   

equation division    anaphase    telophase    prophase    reduction division    metaphase   

meioses   

litotes   

meiotic    meiotically   

diminution    understatement    reduction division   

acidosis    apotheosis    arteriosclerosis    asbestosis    cirrhosis    diagnosis    fibrosis    heterosis    hypnosis    misdiagnosis   

Musharraf    infavor