Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word CLEAVAGES

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Definitions of CLEAVAGES

1. plural of cleavage.

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Examples of Using CLEAVAGES in a Sentence

• The mineral was first discovered in Saxony by August Breithaupt in 1817, and named by him from the Greek amblus, blunt, and gonia, angle, because of the obtuse angle between the cleavages.
• Embryonic development begins with a sperm fertilizing an egg cell to become a zygote, which undergoes many cleavages to develop into a ball of cells called a morula.
• When stimulated by one of several triggers, proteases in the system cleave specific proteins to release cytokines and initiate an amplifying cascade of further cleavages.
• The main distinguishing characteristics of crystalline gypsum are its softness (hardness 2 on Mohs scale, soft enough to scratch with a fingernail) and its three unequal cleavages.
• Cleavages were likelier to occur along socioeconomic rather than ethnic lines; broadly speaking, the Cape colonists were delineated into Boers, poor farmers who settled directly on the frontier, and the more affluent, predominantly urbanised Cape Dutch.
• There are distinct cleavages parallel to the faces of the prism (110) and the basal plane (001), but these are not so well developed as in the isomorphous minerals barite and celestite.
• Minerals of the hollandite-cryptomelane and romanèchite groups also have fibrous or acicular habits and two perfect cleavages parallel to the fiber axis.
• Given that sociometry is concerned with group allegiances and cleavages, it is not surprising that sociometric methods have been used to study ethnic relationships and way individuals identify with ethnic groups.
• The utility of consociational democracy is premised on the existence of multiple communal segments with non-overlapping social cleavages, each led by segmental elites.
• Hepcidin is initially synthesized as an 84-amino acid preprohormone (preprohepcidin) which undergoes sequential cleavages to form the active, mature hormone.
• 8S, and 28S, pre-rRNA 40S (Xenopus) and 45S (mammals) must go through a series of cleavages to remove the external and internal spacers (ETS/ITS).
• Following fertilization in the oviduct, the mammalian embryo undergoes a relatively slow round of cleavages to produce an eight-cell morula.
• Two separate, site-specific proteolytic cleavages are necessary for release of the transcriptionally active amino-terminal domain.
• These losses dampened the popular elation that had followed the re-establishment of parliament, while open political debate brought existing cleavages to the surface.
• Cerny identifies six characteristics of a neomedieval world that contribute to this disorder: multiple competing institutions; lack of exogenous territorializing pressures both on sub-national and international levels; uneven consolidation of new spaces, cleavages, conflicts and inequalities; fragmented loyalties and identities; extensive entrenchment of property rights; and spread of the "grey zones" outside the law as well as black economy.
• According to Paul Pierson, the account by Lipset and Rokkan typifies path dependence, as cleavages at particular critical junctures led to stable party systems.
• In molecular biology, U14 small nucleolar RNA (U14 snoRNA) is a non-coding RNA required for early cleavages of eukaryotic precursor rRNAs.
• Spaced cleavages can be categorized based on whether the grains inside the microlithons are randomly oriented or contain microfolds from a previous foliation fabric.
• During maturation of the cornified layers, the protein undergoes a series of cleavages, which are thought to be required for desquamation.
• These cleavages occur at positions S446 and S588 through an autoproteolytic process that resembles proteins like inteins or nucleoporin Nup98 undergo self-cleavage.
• The function of replicase polyprotein 1ab is transcribing and replicating viral RNAs, and it contains the proteinases responsible for the cleavages of the polyprotein.
• As a result, PSC systems like the single transferable vote can become disproportional if there are substantial cross-cutting cleavages, or if voters' ideologies are not well-described by a hierarchical structure of nested clusters,Tideman N.
• The celebration of the NCD in 2006 started early in the morning of 7 April when women showing their cleavages in Edgars, Foschini Group and Truworths at La Lucia Mall, Gateway Shopping Centre and the Pavilion handed out free copies of Cosmopolitan magazine to customers.
• In 2011, Selway suggested a new measure relevant to economic growth for crosscutting cleavages and published a crossnational dataset on crosscutting cleavages among several dimensions (ethnicity, class, geography and religion).
• All the miRNAs in plants are derived from the sequential DCL1 cleavages from pri-miRNA to give pre-miRNA (or miRNA precursor), but the mirtrons bypass the DCL1 cleavage and enter as pre-miRNA in the miRNA maturation pathway.

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