misdivision

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Incorrect division, e.g. of a word.
2. noun Abnormal (i.e. transverse instead of longitudinal) division of a centromere during meiosis or mitosis, resulting in two telocentric chromosomes from a single metacentric chromosome.

Similar words

miswording miswriting misduplication misusage mistelling missplitting misdistribution misformation misassignment misfiling

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Word family

misdivisions