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abscission
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun abscission has 2 senses
- abscission(n = noun.process) Array - shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant; Array is a kind of shedding, sloughing
- abscission(n = noun.act) cutting off - the act of cutting something off; Array is a kind of remotion, removal
has particulars: circumcision
Derived form verb abscise2
CIDE DICTIONARY
abscission, n. [L. abscissio. See Abscind.].
- The act or process of cutting off. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- The state of being cut off. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, “He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more.” [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
abscission, n.
1 the act or an instance of cutting off.
2 Bot. the natural detachment of leaves, branches, flowers, etc.
1 the act or an instance of cutting off.
2 Bot. the natural detachment of leaves, branches, flowers, etc.
Etymology
L abscissio (as ABSCISSA)
ROGET THESAURUS
abscission
Subtraction
N nonaddition, subtraction, subtraction, subduction, deduction, retrenchment, removal, withdrawal, ablation, sublation, abstraction, garbling mutilation, detruncation, amputation, abscission, excision, recision, curtailment, minuend, subtrahend, decrease, abrasion, subtracted, subtractive, in deduction, less, short of, minus, without, except, except for, excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of, save and except, with a reservation, not counting, if one doesn't count.Disjunction
N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.
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