nuclear fission

English

Noun

nuclear fission (usually uncountable, plural nuclear fissions)

1. (nuclear physics) A nuclear reaction in which a large nucleus splits into smaller ones, sometimes accompanied by the simultaneous release of energy.

Antonyms

• fusion, nuclear fusion

Hyponyms

• induced fission
• spontaneous fission

Translations

atom-splitting nuclear reaction

• Arabic: انشطار
• Basque: fisio nuklear, fisio
• Bulgarian: разцепване (bg) n (razcepvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 核裂變／核裂变 (zh) (hélièbiàn), 核分裂 (zh) (héfēnliè)

• Czech: jaderné štěpení n, štěpení (cs) n
• Danish: kernespaltning, fission (da) c, spaltning c
• Dutch: kernsplijting (nl) f, splitsen (nl)
• Finnish: ydinfissio, fissio (fi)
• French: fission nucléaire (fr) f, fission (fr) f
• German: Kernspaltung (de) f
• Greek: σχάση (el) f (schási)
• Hindi: नाभिकीय विखंडन m (nābhikīya vikhaṇḍan)
• Hungarian: maghasadás (hu), atommaghasadás (hu)
• Icelandic: kjarnaklofnun f, klofnun f, kjarnasundrun f, skipting
• Italian: fissione (it) f
• Japanese: 核分裂 (ja) (かくぶんれつ, kakubunretsu)
• Korean: 핵분열 (ko) (haekbunyeol)
• Macedonian: ја́дрено це́пење n (jádreno cépenje), нуклеа́рна фи́сија f (nukleárna físija)
• Malayalam: അണുവിഘടനം (aṇuvighaṭanaṁ)
• Maori: whakangotangotatanga
• Norwegian: fisjonere (no), spalte (no)

  Bokmål: fisjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: fisjon m

• Polish: rozszczepienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: fissão nuclear f, fissão (pt) f
• Russian: я́дерное деле́ние n (jádernoje delénije), деле́ние ядра́ n (delénije jadrá), расщепле́ние (ru) (rasščeplénije)
• Spanish: fisión nuclear f, fisión (es) f
• Swedish: kärnklyvning (sv) c, atomklyvning c, fission (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagsipak, sasipak

See also

• nucleomitophobia