Definitions for cleavage
ˈkli vɪdʒcleav·age

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cleavagenoun

   the state of being split or cleft

   "there was a cleavage between the liberal and conservative members"

2. cleavagenoun

   the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules

3. cleavage, segmentationnoun

   (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum

4. cleavagenoun

   the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts)

5. cleavagenoun

   the act of cleaving or splitting

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cleavagenoun

   The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.

2. cleavagenoun

   The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes.

3. cleavagenoun

   The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis.

4. cleavagenoun

   The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline.

5. cleavagenoun

   The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cleavage

   Cleavage refers to the process or act of splitting, separating, or dividing something along its natural line of division. The term is often used in various fields, such as geology (in reference to the way certain minerals or rocks split along specific layers), biochemistry (referring to the splitting of a molecule), and embryology (describing the division of cells during early embryonic growth). It can also refer to a visible division between a woman's breasts, evident when wearing a low-cut top.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cleavagenoun

   the act of cleaving or splitting

2. Cleavagenoun

   the quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting

3. Cleavagenoun

   division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cleavage

   Crystal parting occurs when minerals break along planes of structural weakness due to external stress or along twin composition planes. Parting breaks are very similar in appearance to cleavage, but only occur due to stress. Examples include magnetite which shows octahedral parting, the rhombohedral parting of corundum and basal parting in pyroxenes.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cleavage

   The splitting of any body having a structure or line of cleavage: as fir cleaves longitudinally, slates horizontally, stones roughly, smoothly, conchoidal, or stratified, &c.

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cleavage

   see segmentation of egg.

Matched Categories

1. • Area
   • Cell Division
   • Chemical Process
   • Division
   • Embryology
   • State

How to pronounce cleavage?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say cleavage in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cleavage in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cleavage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of cleavage in a Sentence

1. Hulya Gulbahar:

   In a majority of Turkey's female abuse cases, the perpetrators receive mitigations in their sentences due to court's detection of consent granted by the victim, in some cases, wearing a miniskirt or some cleavage got the woman's rapist mitigation in his punishment, while in some cases the consent was attached to her wearing red.

2. Raivon Lee:

   Many times, you will see more 'cleavage' in the name of fashion than you ever would from a mom feeding her child.

3. David Asher:

   The most genetically unusual piece of the puzzle and the sequence is a 'furin cleavage site', which allows the virus to spread from bats to humans, and among humans in a highly pathogenic way.

4. Steven Quay:

   These gene jockeys have put in a furin site into a virus that didn't have one in the laboratory, eleven out of 11 times it makes it more effective, more transmissible, more lethal -- all the bad things you'd want. So if you want to juice up a virus and make it more infective or make it go from bats to humans, putting in a furin cleavage site is a great idea.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=cleavage
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cleavage
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cleavage
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=cleavage
6. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=cleavage
7. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=cleavage