abscission

From Latin abscissiō, from abscindō (“I cut, I tear”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /æbˈsɪ.ʃn̩/, /æbˈsɪ.ʒn̩/

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abscission (countable and uncountable, plural abscissions)

1. The act or process of cutting off.
   • 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:

     Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.

2. (obsolete) The state of being cut off. [Attested only in the mid 17^th century.]
3. (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
4. (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole. [First attested in the late 19^th century.]

Not to be confused with abscision, which is defined only as the first sense.

• abscise
• abscisic
• abscisic acid
• abscisin, abscissin

• abscisions

• IPA^(key): /ap.si.sjɔ̃/

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abscission f (plural abscissions)

1. (botany) abscission

• “abscission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.