Cleavage

Cleavage may refer to:

• Cleavage (crystal), the way in which a crystal or mineral tends to split
• Cleavage (embryo), the division of cells in an early embryo
• Cleavage (geology), foliation of rock perpendicular to stress, a result of ductile deformation
• Cleave (fiber), a controlled break in an optical fiber
• Bond cleavage, in chemistry and biochemistry, the splitting of chemical bonds
• Cleavage factor, a protein complex that helps cleave of a newly synthesized pre-messenger RNA (mRNA)
• Cleavage furrow, in cell biology, the indentation that begins the process of cleavage, by which animal cells undergo cytokinesis
• Proteolysis, also called peptide cleavage, the breaking down of proteins

• Cleavage (breasts), the partial exposure of breasts or their intervening gap.
• Buttock cleavage, the minor exposure of the buttocks and the gluteal cleft between them
• Toe cleavage, the partial exposure of toes in shoes
• Teeth cleavage or tooth cleavage, slang for diastema, the gap between a person's two front teeth

• Cleavage (politics), the divisions of society that cause people to vote differently

• Cleave (disambiguation)
• Cleaver (disambiguation)