scission

American  

[sizh-uhn, sish-] / ˈsɪʒ ən, ˈsɪʃ- /

noun

1. a cutting, dividing, or splitting; division; separation.

2. Chemistry. cleavage.

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scission British  

/ ˈsɪʃən /

noun

1. the act or an instance of cutting, splitting, or dividing

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Etymology

Origin of scission

1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Late Latin scissiōn- (stem of scissiō ) a cutting, equivalent to sciss ( us ) (past participle of scindere to cut) + -iōn- -ion

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Example Sentences

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scission

Universal Pictures has just completed Earthquake, starring Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner, which scission will be offered complete with enormous loudspeakers installed in the theater to ensure a seat-shaking rumble for the audience.

From Time Magazine Archive

Undeveloped she is, like nature, yet beautiful; sunken still in the life of the senses, she dwells in her little paradise without any inner scission.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider

But who can say what would be the evils of a scission, and when and where they would end?

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

But if on a temporary superiority of the one party, the other is to resort to a scission of the Union, no federal government can ever exist.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

Censure was the lot of the indignant boys who officered the society, and who asked Lemoyne to withdraw; and complete scission from the nourishing vine of Knowledge was his final fate.

From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller

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