How to pronounce “abscission”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The act or process of cutting off.
• (obsolete) The state of being cut off. [Attested only in the mid 17th century.]
• (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
• (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole. [First attested in the late 19th century.]

Practice Nearby Words

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