nuclear fission

1. 1.

   a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

   Synonymsfission

   Broadernuclear reaction

Questions about nuclear fission

What does nuclear fission mean?

nuclear fission means "a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy".

What is another word for nuclear fission?

Close synonyms include fission. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nuclear fission a common word?

nuclear fission is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.