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Scission

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of cutting or severing; division or fission.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the act of division, separation, cutting or severing

n. cleavage

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of cutting or dividing, as with an edged instrument; the state of being cut; hence, division; fission; cleavage; splitting.

n. Schism.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of dividing by cutting or splitting

Word Usage

"The second scission occurs when a protease uses an unusual active site within the hydrophobic lipid environment to recognize and cleave the truncated target protein, releasing both the lumenal fragment and the cytoplasmic domain from the membrane."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

cut cutting

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

cyclization dissociation interesterification polycyclic cleavage