Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hemifusion

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hemi-fu-sion
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Partial fusion, or the first stage in full fusion.

Example Sentences

"On the submillisecond time scale, long-lived hemifusion intermediates dominate; this population decays over a time scale of several microseconds (t_(1/2) = 6.3 μs) to yield fully fused vesicles."

Etymology

From hemi- + fusion.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: hemi-

Inflected Forms

hemifusions (plural)

Questions

What does hemifusion mean?: Partial fusion, or the first stage in full fusion.
Where does hemifusion come from?: From hemi- + fusion.

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