Word.ws English Dictionary

orthocleavage

orthocleavage noun: cleavage of 1,2 substituents.

Noun

orthocleavage (uncountable)

  1. cleavage of 1,2 substituents

Origin of orthocleavage

From ortho- + cleavage.

Questions about orthocleavage

What does orthocleavage mean?
Orthocleavage means cleavage of 1,2 substituents.
What part of speech is orthocleavage?
Orthocleavage is a noun.

Words near orthocleavage in the dictionary

  1. orthoclads
  2. orthoclase
  3. orthoclases
  4. orthoclasic
  5. orthoclastic
  6. orthocleavage
  7. orthocomplement
  8. orthocomplementation
  9. orthocomplementations
  10. orthocomplemented
  11. orthocomplements

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: orthocleavage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “orthocleavage.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/orthocleavage. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.