CLEAVAGE
\klˈiːvɪd͡ʒ], \klˈiːvɪdʒ], \k_l_ˈiː_v_ɪ_dʒ]\
Definitions of CLEAVAGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts)
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the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules
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The act of cleaving or splitting.
By Princeton University
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the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts)
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the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules
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The act of cleaving or splitting.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of cleaving or splitting.
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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.
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Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; - usually produced by pressure.
By Oddity Software
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The act of cleaving or splitting.
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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.
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Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; - usually produced by pressure.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The splitting up of a complex molecule into two or more simpler molecules. 2. Segmentation of the vitellus, yolk-c.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act of cleaving or splitting; the fracture, or particular manner, in which any mineral, having a regular structure, may be cleaved.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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That structure in many stratified rocks, such as clay-slate, which renders them capable of being split indefinitely into thin plates.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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From Anglo-Saxon cleoran, 'to split.' The natural line of separation exhibited by certain substances, as minerals, when subjected to mechanical force. The term has been applied to the separation of muscles into longitudinal and circular striae, when mechanical violence is used.
By Robley Dunglison
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The splitting up in a direction different to the plane of stratification. In chemistry, the breaking down at definite points in the molecule of a more complex compound into a simpler one. In dentistry, the splitting of the enamel in a definite direction. [Ang.-Sax.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
