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microcleavage

noun

Etymology

From micro- + cleavage.

  1. derived from *gleybʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *klīban✻
  3. inherited from clīfan
  4. inherited from *klibāną✻
  5. inherited from *klibēn✻
  6. inherited from clifian
  7. inherited from cleven
  8. suffixed as cleavage — “cleave + age”
  9. prefixed as microcleavage — “micro + cleavage”

Definitions

  1. cleavage to form very thin layers

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for microcleavage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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