cleavage

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• CMU ARPABET: K L IY1 V AH0 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English cleave Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English cleavage From cleave + -age.

114 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: разцепване (razcepvane) — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Bulgarian: разцепление (razceplenie) — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Czech: rozpolcení — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Czech: rozdělení — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Dutch: splijten — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Dutch: splijting — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• French: clivage — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• German: Kluft — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• German: Teilung — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• German: Spaltung — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• German: Abspaltung — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• German: Abschälung — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Greek: σχίσιμο (schísimo) — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Italian: clivaggio — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Japanese: 切開 (sekkai) — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Japanese: 分割 (bunkatsu) — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Japanese: 亀裂 (kiretsu) — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Japanese: 劈開 (hekikai) — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Macedonian: раскол (raskol) — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Macedonian: расцеп (rascep) — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Polish: rozszczepianie — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Portuguese: clivagem — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Portuguese: rachamento — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Portuguese: rachadura — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Russian: раско́л (raskól) — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Russian: расщепле́ние (rasščeplénije) — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Swedish: klyvning — the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft
• Bulgarian: це́пка (cépka) — separation between breasts
• Catalan: escot — separation between breasts
• Chinese Cantonese: 乳溝 /乳沟 (jyu5 kau1) — separation between breasts
• Chinese Cantonese: 波罅 (bo1 laa3) — separation between breasts
• Chinese Cantonese: 事業線 /事业线 (si6 jip6 sin3) — separation between breasts
• Chinese Mandarin: 乳溝 /乳沟 (rǔgōu) — separation between breasts
• Chinese Mandarin: 事業線 /事业线 (shìyèxiàn) — separation between breasts
• Czech: dekolt — separation between breasts
• Danish: kløft — separation between breasts
• Danish: kavalergang — separation between breasts
• Dutch: decolleté — separation between breasts
• Finnish: rintojen väli — separation between breasts
• Finnish: dekoltee — separation between breasts
• Finnish: tissivako — separation between breasts
• French: décolleté — separation between breasts
• Galician: escote — separation between breasts
• German: Dekolletee — separation between breasts
• German: Dekolleté — separation between breasts
• Hebrew: מַחְשׂוֹף (makhsóf) — separation between breasts
• Hungarian: dekoltázs — separation between breasts
• Indonesian: belahan dada — separation between breasts
• Italian: décolleté — separation between breasts
• Italian: scollatura — separation between breasts
• Italian: incavo — separation between breasts
• Japanese: 谷間 (tanima) — separation between breasts
• Japanese: 胸の谷間 (mune no tanima) — separation between breasts
• Javanese: wonga-wonga — separation between breasts
• Macedonian: деколте́ (dekolté) — separation between breasts
• Malay: lurah dada — separation between breasts
• Norwegian Bokmål: kløft — separation between breasts
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kløft — separation between breasts
• Persian: چاک پستان (čâk pestân) — separation between breasts
• Polish: dekolt — separation between breasts
• Portuguese: entresseio — separation between breasts
• Russian: ложби́нка (ložbínka) — separation between breasts
• Russian: ме́жду груде́й (méždu grudéj) — separation between breasts
• Spanish: canalillo — separation between breasts
• Spanish: escote — separation between breasts
• Spanish: descote — separation between breasts
• Spanish: escotadura — separation between breasts
• Swedish: klyfta — separation between breasts
• Swedish: urringning — separation between breasts
• Swedish: dekolletage — separation between breasts
• Turkish: dekolte — separation between breasts
• Bulgarian: деление (delenie) — biology: cell division
• Chinese Mandarin: 卵裂 (luǎnliè) — biology: cell division
• Dutch: deling — biology: cell division
• Dutch: celdeling — biology: cell division
• Finnish: solun jakautuminen — biology: cell division
• French: division — biology: cell division
• German: Furchung — biology: cell division
• German: Zellteilung — biology: cell division
• German: Teilung — biology: cell division
• Hungarian: sejtosztódás — biology: cell division
• Italian: segmentazione — biology: cell division
• Japanese: 卵割 (rankatsu) — biology: cell division
• Korean: 난할 (nanhal) — biology: cell division
• Korean: 알갈림 (alkallim) — biology: cell division
• Northern Kurdish: şeqbûn — biology: cell division
• Macedonian: делба (delba) — biology: cell division
• Polish: podział — biology: cell division
• Portuguese: clivagem — biology: cell division
• Russian: деле́ние (delénije) — biology: cell division
• Spanish: división — biology: cell division
• Chinese Mandarin: 斷裂 /断裂 (duànliè) — chemistry: splitting of a large molecule
• Czech: štěpení — chemistry: splitting of a large molecule
• Finnish: lohkeaminen — chemistry: splitting of a large molecule
• French: clivage — chemistry: splitting of a large molecule
• German: Spaltung — chemistry: splitting of a large molecule
• Italian: scissione — chemistry: splitting of a large molecule
• Japanese: 開裂 (kairetsu) — chemistry: splitting of a large molecule
• Korean: 분열 (bunyeol) — chemistry: splitting of a large molecule
• Polish: rozszczepienie — chemistry: splitting of a large molecule
• Portuguese: clivagem — chemistry: splitting of a large molecule
• Bulgarian: цепимост (cepimost) — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split
• Chinese Mandarin: 解理 (jiělǐ) — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split
• Czech: štěpnost — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split
• Finnish: lohkeavuus — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split
• French: clivage — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split
• German: Spaltneigung — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split
• German: Schieferung — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split
• Italian: sfaldatura — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split
• Japanese: 劈開 (hekikai) — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split
• Korean: 벽개 (byeoggae) — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split
• Polish: łupliwość — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split
• Portuguese: clivagem — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split
• Spanish: exfoliación — mineralogy: tendency of a crystal to split