Talk:scission
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Kiwima in topic RFV discussion: July–August 2021
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RFV-sense "cleavage". Which sense of "cleavage"? If it's only "the act of cleaving/separating", then this is just a restatement of sense 1 and not a separate sense; I kind of suspect that's what it is, because it dates to 2005, when people often put different ways of saying the same thing on different definition lines. But I don't want to just merge it if some other, non-redundant sense is attestable. - -sche (discuss) 19:05, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
- I bet we won’t find uses such as, “Wearing a hidden camera on her chest, Whitney secretly captured the fleeting glances and unabashed ogling directed at her ample scission.”[1] “DNA strand scission” and “DNA strand cleavage” are synonymous terms. In this context, a scientist would not readily use the terms division, separation, cutting or severing, although they fit from a strictly semantic viewpoint. Sense 2 can easily be folded into sense 1 by using “The act of division, separation, cutting, cleaving or severing”. — This comment was unsigned.
- I've merged the senses. - -sche (discuss) 03:19, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
RFV-resolved Kiwima (talk) 22:03, 10 August 2021 (UTC)