Cleavage vs Twinning - What's the difference?
cleavage | twinning |
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.
action of the verb to twin
giving birth to twins
the pairing of similar objects (such as towns)
(mineralogy) the formation of twin crystals
(transport) the conversion of a road into a dual carriageway
biparous
In mineralogy terms the difference between cleavage and twinning
is that cleavage is the tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes while twinning is the formation of twin crystals.As nouns the difference between cleavage and twinning
is that cleavage is the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft while twinning is action of the verb to twinAs a verb twinning is
present participle of lang=en.As an adjective twinning is
biparous.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).