Cleavage ¹

Definition: The act of cleaving or splitting.

Cleavage ²

Definition: 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.

Cleavage ³

Definition: Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; usually produced by pressure.

cleavage ⁴

Definition: the act of cleaving or splitting

cleavage ⁵

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

cleavage ⁶

Definition: (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum

cleavage ⁷

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

cleavage ⁸

Definition: the state of being split or cleft