cleavage
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cleavage (plural cleavages)
- 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.
- (chemistry) The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.
- (biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis.
[edit] Usage notes
In Winston's Dictionary (Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1931), only definitions #2 and #3 above were given. Today, however, with the increasingly open discussion of sexually-related subjects, definition #1 would undoubtedly be the best known to most English speakers.
[edit] Related terms
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separation between breasts
[edit] Translations
separation between breasts
the act or the state
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mineralogy: tendency of a crystal
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biology: cell division
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