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What is the noun for cleaves?

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cleavage
  1. The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft. [from 19th c.]
  2. (by extension) Any similar separation between two body parts, such as the buttocks or toes.
  3. (biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis. [from 19th c.]
  4. (chemistry) The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.
  5. (mineralogy) The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes. [from 19th c.]
  6. (politics) The division of voters into voting blocs.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The plane of cleavage is parallel to the grain, either radially or tangentially.”
      “This woman flashes around some cleavage and Harry follows like a dog in heat.”
      “The sight of a young lass flashing a bit of leg or a bit of cleavage can render most teenage lads incapable of concentrating on anything else.”
cleaving
cleave
  1. (technology) Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
cleavability
  1. Quality or degree of being cleavable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In this paper, a novel feature extraction method is proposed for understanding important patterns in octamer's cleavability.”
      “We show that replacement of 10 SNAP-23 residues with their SNAP-25 counterparts effects SNAP-25-like cleavability.”
      “Good cleavability, resistance to must and young age of wood are the main criterions for sort selections of wood.”
cleavabilities
  1. plural of cleavability
cleavages
  1. plural of cleavage
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Whatever the cleavages among the children of Khrushchev's de-Stalinization, their children had come of age in a different time.”
      “Folds, cleavages, tension gashes and stylolites were also taken into account.”
      “Mutations have been identified that change the cleavages in interestingly stereotyped ways.”
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