Cleavage may refer to:
- Cleavage (breasts), partial exposure of the separation between a woman's breasts.
- Cleavage enhancement, methods of making a person's breast cleavage look more substantial than it really is.
- Buttock cleavage, minor exposure of the buttocks and the gluteal cleft between them
- Toe cleavage, partial exposure of a woman's toes in shoes
- Cleavage (crystal), in mineralogy and materials science, is a process of splitting a single crystal.
- Cleavage (geology), Foliation perpendicular to stress as a result of ductile deformation. e.g. shales (shists)
- Cleavage (embryo), in embryology, is the division of cells in the early embryo.
- Cleavage (fiber), in optical fibers.
- Teeth cleavage or tooth cleavage, slang for Diastema (dentistry), the gap between a person's two front teeth.
- In cell biology, the Cleavage furrow is the indentation that begins the process of cleavage, by which animal cells undergo cytokinesis.
- Bond cleavage in chemistry and biochemistry
- Cleavage (politics) The divisions of society that cause people to vote differently
Famous quotes containing the word cleavage:
“Jesus abolished the very concept of guiltMhe denied any cleavage between God and man. He lived this unity of God and man as his glad tidings ... and not as a prerogative!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)