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Significados de litotes en inglés

portugués
litotes
catalán
lítote
español
atenuación

Understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)

atenuación
ruso
литота
portugués
litote
español
litote
catalán
lítote

Figure of speech.

Términos relacionados
litote
Sinónimos
Examples for "meiosis"
Examples for "meiosis"
1
Recombination is the exchange of information between two homologous chromosomes during meiosis.
Pubmed
2
The key step for faithful chromosome segregation during meiosis is kinetochore assembly.
Pubmed
3
Would she have been willing to risk the random roll of meiosis?
Still alice
4
In meiosis, recombinant frequencies were reduced by a factor of approximately 10.
Pubmed
5
These findings confirm errors in meiosis as the origin of struma ovarii.
Pubmed
Uso de litotes en inglés
1
There's a bizarre footnote to the story of hyperbole, which is that of its cousin, litotes, or understatement.
The Guardian
2
V.- Ipardonthis epitrope, but pray use less metaphor and more litotes in the prosopography you dedicate to my modest entity-
Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. / A Weekly Jou...
Colocaciones frecuentes
Translations for litotes
portugués
litoteslitote
catalán
lítote
Litotes a través del tiempo