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cleavage

cleav·age [ klvij ] (plural cleav·ages)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. crease visible between breasts: the hollow visible between a woman's breasts when a low-cut garment is worn

2. split in something: a split, division, or separation of something

3. act of splitting: division or splitting

4. geology minerals rock or mineral fracture: the splitting of minerals or rocks along natural planes of weakness determined by their internal crystal lattice. The angle of cleavage is one of the features used to identify minerals.

5. embryology repeated division of fertilized egg: the repeated division of a fertilized ovum zygote before formation of the early embryo blastula. The zygote does not increase in size during this process because the cells become progressively smaller after each division.

6. chemistry splitting of molecule: the splitting of a molecule into simpler molecules through the breaking of a chemical bond

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