Cleavage vs Fracture - What's the difference?
cleavage | fracture |
The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.
(mineralogy) The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes.
(biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis.
The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline.
* 1946 , "Cinema: Cleavage and the Code", Time , 5 Aug 1946:
(chemistry) The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.
(politics) The division of voters into voting blocs.
the act of breaking, or something that has broken, especially that in bone or cartilage
(geology) a fault or crack in a rock
to break, or cause something to break
As nouns the difference between cleavage and fracture
is that cleavage is the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft while fracture is the act of breaking, or something that has broken, especially that in bone or cartilage.As a verb fracture is
to break, or cause something to break.cleavage
English
Noun
(en noun)- Low-cut Restoration costumes worn by the Misses Lockwood and Roc (see cut) display too much "cleavage " (Johnston Office trade term for the shadowed depression dividing an actress' bosom into two distinct sections).