Meioses vs Meiosis - What's the difference?
meioses | meiosis |
(countable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
* 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
(uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce (l).
As nouns the difference between meioses and meiosis
is that meioses is while meiosis is (countable|rhetoric) a figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.meiosis
English
Noun
- I knew, with one of those secret knowledges that can exist between two people, that her suicide was a direct result of my having told her of my own attempt – I had told it with a curt meiosis that was meant to conceal depths; and she had called my bluff one final time.