Meaning of Meiosis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
   countable, rhetoric, uncountable
2. Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“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.”

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