noun. The act of splitting or cleaving.

noun. The state of being split or cleft; a fissure or division.

noun. The splitting or tendency to split of a crystallized substance along definite crystalline planes, yielding smooth surfaces.

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noun. The series of mitotic cell divisions that produces a blastula from a fertilized ovum. It is the basis of the multicellularity of complex organisms.

noun. Any single cell division in such a series.

noun. The splitting of a complex molecule, such as a polysaccharide, into simpler molecules.

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

noun. The act of cleaving or splitting, or the state of being cloven.

noun. In mineralogy, the property possessed by many crystallized minerals of breaking readily in one or more directions, by which means surfaces more or less smooth are obtained.

noun. In geology, the property possessed by certain rocks of being easily split or divided into thin layers.

noun. In embryology, segmentation, specifically of the vitellus: distinctively called egg-cleavage or yolk-cleavage. See segmentation.

noun. The act of cleaving or splitting.

noun. 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.

noun. Division into laminæ, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.

noun. cleavage parallel to the base of a crystal, or to the plane of the lateral axes.

noun. multiplication of cells by fission. See Segmentation.

noun. cleavage parallel to the faces of a cube.

noun. cleavage parallel to ta diagonal plane.

noun. See Segmentation.

noun. cleavage parallel to the lateral planes.

noun. cleavage parallel to the faces of an octahedron, dodecahedron, or rhombohedron.

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noun. cleavage parallel to a vertical prism.

noun. The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.

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

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

noun. the act of cleaving or splitting

noun. (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum

noun. the state of being split or cleft

"Apparently, the British word for "cleavage" is the same as the American word for "pre-pubescent""

Cleavage  cleavage-cavity  cleavage-globule  cleavage-mass  décolletage  

cleave  cleft  

area  cell division  cellular division  chemical action  chemical change  

aguilera  condensation  degradation  dissociation  hydrolysis  

abscission  alienation  alpha decay  amputation  atom-chipping  

parting