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photocleaving

photocleaving is the present participle and gerund of photocleave.

Meaning of photocleave

Verb

photocleave (third-person singular simple present photocleaves, present participle photocleaving, simple past and past participle photocleaved)

  1. To cleave a bond by photolysis

Questions about photocleaving

What is photocleaving the present participle and gerund of?
Photocleaving is the present participle and gerund of photocleave.

Words near photocleaving in the dictionary

  1. photocleavable
  2. photocleavage
  3. photocleave
  4. photocleaved
  5. photocleaves
  6. photocleaving
  7. photoclinometer
  8. photoclinometers
  9. photoclinometry
  10. photocoagulate
  11. photocoagulated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: photocleaving (page history and authors); photocleave (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.

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