cleavage

4 definitions • 4 examples

the narrow space between a person's breasts that is seen when they wear a piece of clothing that does not cover the top of them:

Clare was wearing a low-cut dress that showed off her cleavage.

(a) division or disagreement:

cleavage between There is a marked cleavage between the parties about the government's defence policy.

the division of a cell, especially an egg cell after it has been fertilized:

It was easy to identify pairs of cells which had just undergone cleavage.

the cleavage stage of sea urchin embryos

the tendency of a mineral (= hard substance obtained from the earth) to break in a particular way because of its structure