Science Fair Project Dictionary
Cleavage
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English
Noun
cleavage
- The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline
- The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
- (mineralogy) The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes
- The splitting of a large molecule into smaller omes
- (biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis
Related terms
Translations to be checked (entered before any definition)
- Chinese: 卵裂
- Dutch: splijten n
- French: fendage m
- German: Spaltung f
- Greek: σχίσιμο n
- Italian: fenditura f
- Japanese: 開裂
- Korean: 분열
- Russian: расщепление n (rasscheplenie)
- Spanish: hendidura f
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