Fissure vs Cleavage - What's the difference?
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To split forming fissures.
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.
As nouns the difference between fissure and cleavage
is that fissure is a crack or opening, as in a rock while cleavage is the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.As a verb fissure
is to split forming fissures.fissure
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Derived terms
* fissure needle * fissure of Rolando * fissure of Sylvius * fissure veinVerb
(fissur)Anagrams
* ----cleavage
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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).