ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Misdivision

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Misdivision is a noun meaning Incorrect division, e.g. of a word.

Meaning

Incorrect division, e.g. of a word.

More Meanings

  1. (cytology) 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.

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Related dictionary entries include miswording, miswriting, misduplication, misusage, mistelling, missplitting.

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