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 ab·scis·sion /æbˈsɪʒən/
 切斷,除去,頓斷法

 ab·scis·sion /æbˈsɪʒən/ 名詞
 脫木質化[作用],切除術

 Ab·scis·sion n.
 1. The act or process of cutting off. “Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.”
 2. The state of being cut off.
 3. Rhet. A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, “He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more.”
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 abscission
      n 1: shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation
           of scar tissue in a plant
      2: the act of cutting something off [syn: cutting off]