Usually means: Splitting atomic nuclei releases energy.
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  1. nuclear fission: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nuclear fission: Merriam-Webster
  3. nuclear fission: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nuclear fission: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nuclear fission: Vocabulary.com
  6. nuclear fission: Wordnik
  7. nuclear fission: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nuclear fission: Wiktionary
  9. nuclear fission: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. nuclear fission: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. nuclear fission, fission, nuclear: Dictionary.com
  12. Nuclear Fission, Nuclear fission: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. nuclear fission: Rhymezone
  14. nuclear fission: FreeDictionary.org
  15. nuclear fission: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. nuclear fission: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. nuclear fission: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nuclear fission: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. nuclear fission: Medical dictionary

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  2. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fission, Nuclear: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. NUCLEAR FISSION: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

(Note: See nuclear_fissions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nuclear fission)

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

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