Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misdivision

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mis-di-vi-sion
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Incorrect division, e.g. of a word.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Abnormal (i.e. transverse instead of longitudinal) division of a centromere during meiosis or mitosis, resulting in two telocentric chromosomes from a single metacentric chromosome.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From mis- + division.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

misdivisions (plural)

Questions

What does misdivision mean?
Incorrect division, e.g. of a word.
Where does misdivision come from?
From mis- + division.

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