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Fissility vs Cleavage - What's the difference?

fissility | cleavage |

As nouns the difference between fissility and cleavage

is that fissility is quality of being fissile while cleavage is the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.

fissility

English

Noun

(-)
  • Quality of being fissile.
  • (geology) The property of mudstones to split along layers, more or less parallel to the plane of bedding, thus becoming described as shales.

    • See also

    * foliation

    References

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    cleavage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
    • 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).
  • (chemistry) The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.
  • (politics) The division of voters into voting blocs.

    • Related terms

    * cleave * cleft

    Synonyms

    * (separation between breasts) intermammary sulcus

    See also

    * * spathic *