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Meiotic

Definition: Meiotic

Meiotic

Adjective

1. Of or relating to meiosis.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Meiotic

English words defined with "meiotic": oocyte. (references)
Specialty definitions using "meiotic": Gene ConversionMaturation-Promoting FactorNondisjunction, GeneticSister Chromatid Exchange, Synaptonemal ComplexVitellogenesis. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Meiotic

DomainTitle

Books

  • Meiotic configurations : a source of information for estimating genetic parameters (reference)

  • Meiotic inhibition : molecular control of meiosis : proceedings of a symposium held at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, January 1987 (reference)

  • Meiotic Mechanism (reference)

  • The Fungal Holomorph: Mitotic, Meiotic and Pleomorphic Speciation in Fungal Systematics: Proceedings of an International Symposium Newport, Oregon (reference)

  • The Meiotic Process: Pairing, Recombination and Chromosome Movement, II (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Meiotic

"Meiotic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Meiotic" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4054,274

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Meiotic

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "meiotic": pre-meiotic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Meiotic

Language Translations for "meiotic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

meiotisk metafase (meiotic metaphase), meiotisk konjugation (meiotic pairing), defekt meiose (meiotic breakdown). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

metafase vd reductiedeling (meiotic metaphase), metafase vd meiosis (meiotic metaphase), metafase vd meiose (meiotic metaphase), metafase vd deling van geslachtscellen (meiotic metaphase), metadase vd rijpingsdeling (meiotic metaphase), meiotische afbraak (meiotic breakdown), chromosoomparing bij de meiose (meiotic pairing). (various references)

   

French

  

métaphase méiotique (meiotic metaphase), arrêt méiotique (meiotic breakdown), appariement méiotique (meiotic pairing). (various references)

   

German

  

meiotischer Zusammenbruch (meiotic breakdown), meiotische Paarung (meiotic pairing), meiotische Metaphase (meiotic metaphase). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μειωτική σύναψη (meiotic pairing), μειωτική μετάφαση (meiotic metaphase). (various references)

   

Italian

  

metafase meiotica (meiotic metaphase), degradazione meiotica (meiotic breakdown), accoppiamento meiotico (meiotic pairing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eioticmay

   

Portuguese

  

metafase meiotica (meiotic metaphase), emparelhamento meiótico (meiotic pairing). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

metafase meiótica (meiotic metaphase), apareamiento meiótico (meiotic pairing). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เกี่ยวกับการแบ่งเซลล์ชนิดหนึ่ง. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Meiotic

Derivations

Words beginning with "meiotic": meiotically. (additional references)

Words ending with "meiotic": premeiotic, semeiotic. (additional references)

Words containing "meiotic": semeiotics. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Meiotic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maeiotic, maeotic, meatoid, meiotics, Melottie, meotic, meroitic, miotic, nepotic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Meiotic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-m-o-t"

-1 letter: miotic.

-2 letters: comet, comte.

-3 letters: cite, come, cote, emic, emit, etic, item, mice, mite, mote, omit, otic, time, tome.

-4 letters: cot, ice, met, moc, mot, tic, tie, toe, tom.

-5 letters: em, et, it, me, mi, mo, oe, om, ti, to.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-m-o-t"
 

+1 letter: comities, epitomic, semiotic.

 

+2 letters: biometric, eroticism, exoticism, homiletic, isometric, mitogenic, poeticism, semeiotic, semiotics, semitonic.

 

+3 letters: biochemist, biometrics, cliometric, decimation, dosimetric, emaciation, epitomical, eroticisms, exoticisms, homiletics, isogametic, isometrics, medication, mediocrity, meteoritic, microliter, micropipet, midsection, mucosities, nonmimetic, omnificent, omniscient, poeticisms, polemicist, premeiotic, semeiotics, semitropic, thermionic, totemistic, tremolitic.

 

+4 letters: audiometric, biochemists, biometrical, cliometrics, combinative, commodities, communities, competition, competitive, cosmetician, cosmeticize, creationism, decimations, dichotomies, dichotomize, discomfited, domesticity, domiciliate, emaciations, encomiastic, endomitotic, esotericism, eudiometric, goniometric, heliometric, hemopoietic, homiletical, impotencies, imprecation, interatomic, malediction, medications, meiotically, melioristic, metafiction, meteoritics, methodistic, metrication, microinject, microliters, micropipets, midsections, miscreation, modernistic, neuroticism, objectivism, phonemicist, piezometric, polemicists, radiometric, romanticise, romanticize, semiotician, semioticist, semitropics, sociometric, spirometric, thermionics, timocracies, tumorigenic, uricotelism, viscometric.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Meiotic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 65 69 6F 74 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "meiotic"


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