Fission vs. Fragmentation

Fissionnoun

The process whereby one item splits to become two.

Fissionnoun

(physics) The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles; nuclear fission

Fissionnoun

(biology) The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells.

Fissionverb

(transitive) To cause to undergo fission.

Fissionverb

(intransitive) To undergo fission.

Fissionnoun

A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.

Fissionnoun

A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division.

Fissionnoun

A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation.

Fissionnoun

The act or process of disintegration of an atomic nucleus into two or more smaller pieces; called also nuclear fission. The process may be spontaneous or induced by capture of neutrons or other smaller nuclei, and usually proceeds with evolution of energy.

Fissionnoun

a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

Fissionnoun

reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts

Fragmentationnoun

The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.

Fragmentationnoun

The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter.

Fragmentationnoun

(computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

Fragmentationnoun

(computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.

Fragmentationnoun

the act or process of separating something into small pieces or fine particles.

Fragmentationnoun

separating something into fine particles

Fragmentationnoun

the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships

Fragmentationnoun

(computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk;

Fragmentationnoun

the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes