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Definition: Meiotic |
MeioticAdjective1. 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 Conversion ♦ Maturation-Promoting Factor ♦ Nondisjunction, Genetic ♦ Sister Chromatid Exchange, Synaptonemal Complex ♦ Vitellogenesis. (references) |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "meiotic": pre-meiotic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 metafase meiotica (meiotic metaphase), emparelhamento meiótico (meiotic pairing). (various references) metafase meiótica (meiotic metaphase), apareamiento meiótico (meiotic pairing). (various references) เกี่ยวกับการแบ่งเซลล์ชนิดหนึ่ง. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "meiotic": meiotically. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "meiotic": premeiotic, semeiotic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "meiotic": semeiotics. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 69 6F 74 69 63 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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