Dictionary Entry
cleavage
cleavage is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of cleaving or splitting. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of cleaving or splitting.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.
- 4noun
the act of cleaving or splitting
- 5noun
the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts)
- 6noun
(embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum
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- 7noun
the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules
- 8noun
the state of being split or cleft
"there was a cleavage between the liberal and conservative members"
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