Abspaltung — meaning in English

English meaning

• cleavage noun The visible gap between a woman's breasts, especially when shown by a low neckline.
• fork noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.

Senses

Abspaltung is used for these senses in English:

• cleavage The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft. [from 19th c.]
• fork (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
• secession The act of seceding.

cleavage — full definition

1. noun The visible gap between a woman's breasts, especially when shown by a low neckline.
2. noun A split or division of something into separate parts, including the natural splitting planes in crystals or the division of cells during growth.

fork — full definition

1. noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
2. noun A point where a road, path, or river splits into two directions.
3. noun A separate version of a software project or dataset created from an existing one.
4. verb To split into two or more branches or directions.

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