Definitions for cleavages

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cleavages cleav·age

Spelling: [klee-vij]

IPA: /ˈkli vɪdʒ/

Cleavages is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 278 anagrams from letters in cleavages (aaceeglsv).

Definitions for cleavages

noun

1. the act of cleaving or splitting.
2. the state of being cleft.
3. the area between a woman's breasts, especially when revealed by a low-cut neckline.
4. a critical division in opinion, beliefs, interests, etc., as leading to opposition between two groups:
5. the tendency of crystals, certain minerals, rocks, etc., to break in preferred directions so as to yield more or less smooth surfaces (cleavage planes)
6. Embryology. the total or partial division of the egg into smaller cells or blastomeres.
7. Also called scission. Chemistry. the breaking down of a molecule or compound into simpler structures.

Origin of cleavages

First recorded in 1810-20; cleave² + -age

Examples for cleavages

There is no distinct cleavage (rutile and anatase have cleavages); hardness 5-6; sp.

(c) That it is useless to further harp on the “cleavages” of race, religion and language, in dealing with the problem of India.

Barytes, which crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, has two sets of cleavages, viz.

They are triclinic, with cleavages meeting at approximately 86 degrees.

As society forms and reforms, its cleavages follow unknown lines.

Israeli politics, however, involves far more actors, cleavages and ethno-religious interests.

All these cleavages and divisions in the population continue in their effects to this day.

The cleavages of racial temperament are not, as in other countries, bridged over by a sense of national unity.

They were cloven, it was true, but the cleavages were great ulcers and livid putrefactions.

On the best developed of the three cleavages the lustre is pearly, on other surfaces it is of the ordinary vitreous type.