Sentence examples for called cleavage from inspiring English sources

In many cases, parts of the paint and ground will lift from the surface, a condition variously called "cleavage," "flaking," "blistering," or "scaling".

The O.E.D. found cleavage to have made its appearance in 1816 about the mechanical division of crystals "sometimes called cleavage by lapidaries" (cutters of gems, nothing to do with lap-dancing).

I had enough time to grasp that the article was about an intricacy of bankruptcy law that involves something called cleavage and had nothing directly to do with Anna Nicole Smith, before the browser refreshed to something else.

Adjacent layers are separated by clefts, called cleavage planes, allowing local tissue rearrangement by sheetlet shearing.

Periods between mitotic divisions are called cleavage cycles, where cycle n occurs between mitoses n - 1 and n.

In organisms that reproduce sexually, the union of an ovum with a sperm results in a zygote, or fertilized egg, which undergoes a series of divisions called cleavages as it passes down the fallopian tube.

As they say down at Dolce & Gabbana, she adorns pulse points, although even she had to brake in shock beside a billboard in Los Angeles, brought up short by what she called "my cleavage the size of a brontosaurus".

"Sarah is definitely one of the costume designers," on the show, said Ms. Field, who was dressed casually (for her) in a fitted Armani jacket, shoes she called "toe cleavage yellow snakeskin stilettos," with a gold leather Irish fisherman's hat jammed tight on a mop of ringlets colored Crayola red.

This complex binds mRNA in the region encompassing the AAUAAA hexamer and the GU-rich DSE, cleaves the nascent mRNA at a specific site called the cleavage site, and polyadenylates it.

There is a class of enzymes called carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases (CCDs) which cleave double bonds of carotenoids at different positions resulting in the formation of apocarotenoids.

TPT forms a covalent complex between Topoisomerase 1 and DNA, also called the cleavage complex, resulting in DNA damage during cell replication and transcription, ultimately leading to apoptosis [ 11, 12].