English Dictionary

meiosis

/maɪˈəʊ.sɪs/

noun

(countable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.

Meiosis is a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell.

意味（1）

(countable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.

I knew, with one of those secret knowledges that can exist between two people, that her suicide was a direct result of my having told her of my own attempt – I had told it with a curt meiosis that was meant to conceal depths; and she had called my bluff one final time.

意味（2）

(uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.

Meronyms: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, reduction division, equation division