Decolletage vs. Cleavage — What's the Difference?

A low neckline on a woman's dress or top.

The act of splitting or cleaving.

A low neckline on a woman's garment, especially a dress.

The state of being split or cleft; a fissure or division.

A dress with a low neckline in front.

(Mineralogy) The splitting or tendency to split of a crystallized substance along definite crystalline planes, yielding smooth surfaces.

The area of a woman's body that is exposed when a garment with a low neckline is worn.

The series of mitotic cell divisions that produces a blastula from a fertilized ovum. It is the basis of the multicellularity of complex organisms. Also called segmentation.

Alternative spelling of décolletage

Any single cell division in such a series.

The upper border or part of a low-cut (i.e., décolleté) dress.

(Chemistry) The splitting of a complex molecule, such as a polysaccharide, into simpler molecules.

The exposed upper parts of the breasts of a woman wearing a low-cut dress.

(Informal) The cleft between a woman's breasts as revealed by a low-cut garment.

A low-cut neckline on a woman's dress

The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.

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

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

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

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

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

(politics) The division of voters into voting blocs.

The act of cleaving or splitting.

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.

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

The state of being split or cleft

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

(embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum

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

The act of cleaving or splitting