Cleavage vs. Fracture

Cleavagenoun

The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.

Fracturenoun

An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.

Cleavagenoun

The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline.

Fracturenoun

(medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.

Cleavagenoun

(by extension) Any similar separation between two body parts, such as the buttocks or toes.

Fracturenoun

(geology) A fault or crack in a rock.

Cleavagenoun

(biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis.

Fractureverb

(ambitransitive) To break, or cause something to break.

Cleavagenoun

(chemistry) The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.

Fractureverb

To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.

Cleavagenoun

(mineralogy) The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes.

Fracturenoun

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

Cleavagenoun

(politics) The division of voters into voting blocs.

Fracturenoun

The breaking of a bone.

Cleavagenoun

The act of cleaving or splitting.

Fracturenoun

The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.

Cleavagenoun

The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

Fractureverb

To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.

Cleavagenoun

Division into laminæ, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; - usually produced by pressure.

Fracturenoun

breaking of hard tissue such as bone;

‘it was a nasty fracture’; ‘the break seems to have been caused by a fall’;

Cleavagenoun

the state of being split or cleft

Fracturenoun

(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;

‘they built it right over a geological fault’;

Cleavagenoun

the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules

Fracturenoun

the act of cracking something

Cleavagenoun

(embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum

Fractureverb

violate or abuse;

‘This writer really fractures the language’;

Cleavagenoun

the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts)

Fractureverb

interrupt, break, or destroy;

‘fracture the balance of power’;

Cleavagenoun

the act of cleaving or splitting

Fractureverb

break into pieces;

‘The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle’;

Fractureverb

become fractured;

‘The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe’;

Fractureverb

break (a bone);

‘She broke her clavicle’;

Fractureverb

fracture a bone of;

‘I broke my foot while playing hockey’;

Fracture

Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid.