Word Finder - cleavages

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The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.

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The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline.

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(by extension) Any similar separation between two body parts, such as the buttocks or toes.

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The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis.

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The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.

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The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes.

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The division of voters into voting blocs.

The platy minerals have also a perfect cleavage parallel to their flat surfaces, while the fibrous species often have two or more cleavages following their long axes; hence a schistose rock may split not only by separation of the mineral plates from one another but also by cleavage of the parallel minerals through their substance.

Ammonium iodide assumes cubic forms with perfect cubic cleavage; tetramethyl ammonium iodide is tetragonal with perfect cleavages parallel to {100} and {o01} - a difference due to the lengthening of the a axes; tetraethyl ammonium iodide also assumes tetragonal forms, but does not exhibit the cleavage of the tetramethyl compound; while tetrapropyl ammonium iodide crystallizes in rhombic form.

There are perfect cleavages parallel to the dome (oiI).

There are perfect cleavages parallel to the rhombohedral faces, and the crystals exhibit a strong negative double refraction, like calcite.

The frequency of these phenomena is in some degree a source of security, for the minor vibrations are believed to exercise a binding effect by removing weak cleavages.

Large masses with a coarse or fine granular structure are of common occurrence; the fractured surfaces of such masses present a spangled appearance owing to the numerous bright cleavages.

This is of blocks of limestone whose faces follow the natural cleavages, and only dressed where needful; part is hammer-dressed, but most of the surfaces are adze-dressed.

Crystals have imperfect cleavages parallel to the eight faces of the pyramid c 12011.

There is a perfect cleavage parallel to the orthopinacoid and less perfect cleavages parallel to the faces of the prism.

The survey presented below also suggests that anthropological studies have tended to underplay the significance of ethnic cleavages.