cleavages in English

noun
1
a sharp division; a split.
a system dominated by the class cleavage
noun
    segmentation

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1. Its mullahs bicker constantly, seeming to reflect the country’s broader cleavages.

2. Instead, the focus must be on "local cleavages and intracommunity dynamics".

3. The most eye-popping parts of the movie worth mentioning are the actresses' cleavages .

4. As dissolution proceeds, a honeycomb texture may result, particularly where a mineral has near rectilinear cleavages.

5. Hornblende is black and, like all Amphibole minerals, is characterized by two perfect cleavages that intersect at about 60° or 120°

6. The components of Consociation are found to promote lasting peace in divided societies most successfully when combined with additional incentives for the encouragement of cross-cutting cleavages and shared loyalties

7. The cleavage-pattern of the fragments, irrespective of their contents, closely follows that of the whole eggs, including the size-relations, the alternation of spiral cleavages and the arrangement of the blastomeres.

8. There are distinct cleavages parallel to the faces of the prism (110) and the basal plane (001), but these are not so well developed as in the isomorphous minerals barite and celestite.

9. Argillite - a sedimentary rock differing from shale in being bound by silica and from slate in having no slate cleavages sedimentary rock - rock formed from consolidated clay sediments Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection

10. The style of extensional quartz veins changed during deformation and metamorphism of greywacke–mudstones near Yellowknife, with successive types of veins accompanying a progression from steeply plunging, predominantly macroscopic F1, and F2 folds to mesoscopic F3 folds and subvertical S3 axial planar cleavages.