CLEAVAGE meaning: Breakage along specific crystal planes

We found 39 dictionaries that define the word cleavage:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

cleavage: Merriam-Webster
cleavage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
cleavage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
cleavage: Collins English Dictionary
cleavage: Vocabulary.com
Cleavage, cleavage: Wordnik
cleavage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
cleavage: Wiktionary
cleavage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
cleavage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
cleavage: Infoplease Dictionary
cleavage: Dictionary.com
cleavage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Cleavage (breasts), Cleavage (buttocks), Cleavage (chemistry), Cleavage (crystal), Cleavage (disambiguation), Cleavage (embryo), Cleavage (fiber), Cleavage (geology), Cleavage (politics), Cleavage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Cleavage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
cleavage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
cleavage: Rhymezone
Cleavage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
cleavage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CLEAVAGE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
cleavage: FreeDictionary.org
cleavage: Mnemonic Dictionary
cleavage: TheFreeDictionary.com
cleavage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
Cleavage (disambiguation), cleavage: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Cleavage (crystal), Cleavage (disambiguation), Cleavage (embryo), cleavage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

cleavage: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Cleavage (crystal), Cleavage (disambiguation), Cleavage (embryo), cleavage: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Sociology (No longer online)
cleavage: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)

Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
Cleavage: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Cleavage: Gems and Precious Stones

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.
▸ noun:  The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline.
▸ noun:  (by extension) Any similar separation between two body parts, such as the buttocks or toes.
▸ noun:  (biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis.
▸ noun:  (chemistry) The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.
▸ noun:  (mineralogy) The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes; schistosity.
▸ noun:  (politics) The division of voters into voting blocs.

Similar:

segmentation, cleave, scissure, chap, crevasse, clough, cleftstone, cave-in, caving, chop, more...

Opposite:

union, fusion, connection, joining, attachment

Types:

geologic, thermal, chemical, mechanical, hydrothermal, more...

Phrases:

cleavage site, proteolytic cleavage, cleavage plane, cleavage fracture, cleavage furrow, more...

Adjectives:

proteolytic, first, perfect, social, enzymatic, hydrolytic, slaty, specific, political, sharp, deep

Colors:

ivory, beige, blush, peach, champagne, more...