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Meaning Of Cleavage
n.
The act of cleaving or splitting.
n.
The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of
splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the
cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth
surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by
cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.
n.
Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination
not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually
produced by pressure.