Cleavage

['kliːvɪdʒ] or ['klivɪdʒ]

解释:

(noun.) the act of cleaving or splitting.

(noun.) the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts).

(noun.) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum.

(noun.) the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules.

(noun.) the state of being split or cleft; 'there was a cleavage between the liberal and conservative members'.

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解释:

(n.) The act of cleaving or splitting.

(n.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

(n.) Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.

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