Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /maɪˈəʊsɪs/

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (countable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
  2. (uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.

Exempel

  • 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.

Böjningsformer

Pluralmeioses