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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Meiosis \Mei*o"sis\, n. [NL., fr Gr ?, fr ? to make smaller,
from ?. See {Meionite}.] (Rhet.)
Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as
being less than it really is
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
meiosis
n 1: cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually
reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four
nuclei each containing half the chromosome number
(leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
[syn: {reduction division}]
2: understatement, esp. expressing an affirmative by negating
its contrary [syn: {litotes}]
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