noun
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Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
verb
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To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
example
The wings cleaved the foggy air.
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To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
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To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
example
The truck cleaved a path through the ice.
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To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
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To split.
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Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.