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HSK
to split up / to divide / to break up / fission / schism
HSK 6
East African Rift Valley
(physics) to undergo nuclear fission / (fig.) to break apart, forming smaller units; to fragment
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to split / to crack / to break open / to rend
HSK 6
schistosome, parasitic flatworm causing snail fever (bilharzia or schistosomiasis)
separatism
cell division
fracture / rupture / to break apart
HSK 7-9
to have a splitting headache (idiom)
crack / crevice / CL:
HSK 7-9
atomic fission / nuclear fission / fission
to be scared out of one's wits (idiom)
nuclear fission
to burst; to explode; to rupture
(idiom) fragmented; scattered; in disarray; at sixes and sevens
to tear; to rip apart
to crack (fractionally distill oil)
(geology) rift valley
gap; slit; crack; crevice; fracture
mitosis
to disintegrate / to shatter into small pieces
anti-secession law of 2005 (whereby PRC claims the right to invade Taiwan)
to rupture / to burst open / to break / to break off relations with / a rupture
to rupture / to burst open / to break up
fault zone (geology)
heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval
meiosis (in sexual reproduction)
separatist group / (botany) meristem
crack / gap / split
HSK 7-9
(of dry soil etc) to crack; (of skin) to chap
bone fracture / (of a bone) to fracture
rip
schizo-
crack / flaw
to burst; to rupture / (of a relationship etc) to break down
HSK 7-9
East African Rift Valley
ugly / repulsive
hair standing up and eyes wide in anger (idiom); enraged / in a towering rage
binary division (in bacterial reproduction)
fissionable
chain reaction of nuclear fission
split due to repeated folding / flex crack
commissurotomy
to crack / cracked / fissured / creviced / (of skin) chapped
pyrolysis / splitting (chemistry)
to split open / to dehisce (of fruit or cotton bolls, to split open)
spina bifida
rift / crevice / fissure
to split open / to cleave / to rend
meiosis (in sexual reproduction)
(linguistics) (old) plosive; stop
fissionable material
to cut apart; to sever; to separate; to isolate
to split open
cleavage of fertilized ovum into cells
to rupture / to burst / to explode
lateral sulcus or Sylvian fissure (neuroanatomy)
hydraulic fracturing / fracking
anal fissure
to split / to crack / to burst (open)
schizoid personality disorder (SPD)
to crack; to split / fracture line
fissionable isotope
to split open / to split apart
cleft palate
schizophrenia
Schizomycetes (taxonomic class of fungi)
to lose one's standing / to have one's reputation swept away / a complete defeat and fall from grace
lobe / longitudinal slit / vertical fracture
fission weapon
cleft lip
amitosis
(of lips, skin etc) to chap
pinnation (splitting of leaves into lobes)
gill slit (in fish)
Rift Valley fever (RVF)
explosives
in mortal fear (idiom)
cleft palate (birth defect)
splinter / chip / tear (split in a surface) / lobe
fission bomb
Shuanglong Rift Valley in Mt Xiong'er National Geological Park 熊耳山, Zaozhuang 棗莊|枣庄, Shandong
rupture strength / breaking strength
fission fragment
to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment)
breach / split / rift / vent (volcanic crater)
(of lips, skin etc) to chap
schizoaffective disorder
fissionable material
modulus rupture
fission products
cleft lip and palate
Schizomycetes (taxonomic class of fungi)


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