misdivisionn.
/ˌmɪsdᵻˈvɪʒn/, U.S. /ˌmɪsdəˈvɪʒ(ə)n/ 1. Incorrect division, esp. of a word (cf. metanalysis n.). Also: an instance of this.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > [noun] > instance of > in division
misdivision1890
1890 Cent. Dict. at Newt Newte, an erroneous form due to misdivision of an ewte.
1905 O. Jespersen Growth & Struct. Eng. Lang. 73 The result being the same misdivision of the word.
1987 Eng. Today Jan. 29/1 Unless a very large list of words subject to hyphenation is stored, we are bound to get peculiar misdivisions in going from line to line.
1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 May vi. 18/1 A napron was pronounced ‘an apron’, and the letter n may have just popped over in what some linguists call misdivision.
1991 Jrnl. Philos. 88 36 Science is supposed to carve nature at the joints... Is it permissible in science to adopt a carving system so simple that it makes sense to tolerate occasional misdivisions and consequent mispredictions?
2. Genetics and Cell Biology. Abnormal division of a chromosome, nucleus, or cell at meiosis or mitosis; esp. transverse, rather than longitudinal, division of a centromere. Also: an instance of such abnormal division.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > other processes in mitosis or meiosis
zonation1899
diakinesis1902
parasynapsis1909
syndesis1909
parasyndesis1911
non-disjunction1913
non-conjunction1925
asynapsis1930
stathmokinesis1938
misdivision1939
metakinesis1948
tandem duplication1959
1939 C. D. Darlington in Jrnl. Genetics 37 341 (heading) Misdivision and the genetics of the centromere.
1939 C. D. Darlington in Jrnl. Genetics 37 346 The simplest misdivision is that where two short arms are carried to one pole, two long arms to the other.
1966 Proc. Royal Soc. 1965–6 B. 163 161 Non-disjunction is the general word for this misdivision.
1972 tr. J. Sybenga Gen. Cytogenetics v. 223 After centromere mis-division, functional telocentric chromosomes may arise.
1985 Mechanisms Ageing & Developm. 32 299 An hypothesis is presented which relates macronuclear misdivision to the short clonal life spans of the mutants expressing it.
1995 Genome 38 66/1 When two cell types are formed in mitotic misdivisions in the endosperm, the cell line with the nuclear constitution for normal endosperm can behave as a dominant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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