A cleft is an opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation.
Cleft may refer to:
Linguistics
* A
cleft sentence, a type of grammatical construction
Anatomy
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Cleft lip and palate, a congenital deformity
* A
cleft chin, a dimple on the chin
* The
pudendal cleft, part of the female genitalia
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Intergluteal cleft, the groove between the buttocks
Places
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Cleft Island (Antarctica)
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Cleft Island (Victoria)
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Cleft Ledge Cleft Ledge () is a flat-topped ridge long and wide between Shaw Trough and Healy Trough in the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. The ledge rises to and is 0.3 nautical miles northwest of Hoffman Ledge. The name is descriptive a ...
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Cleft Point
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Cleft Peak
Cleft Peak is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies on the North West end of the Frankland Range jutting out toward the East from the range toward the impoundment Lake Pedder. It is South East of Murpheys Bluff and North West of G ...
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Cleft Rock
Fiction
* ''
The Cleft'', a novel by 2007 Nobel prize laureate Doris Lessing
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The Cleft, a location in Age of D'ni from the computer game ''
Myst''
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Cleft, the Boy Chin Wonder, a character in ''The Fairly Odd Parents''
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Rainbow Cleft
A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc. Rainbows ...
(Cirith Ninniach), a minor place in Beleriand,
J. R. R. Tolkien's
Middle-earth legendarium.
See also
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Cleave (disambiguation)
Cleave may refer to:
* Cleave (surname)
* Cleave (fiber), a controlled break in optical fiber
* RAF Cleave, was an airfield in the north of Cornwall, England, May 1939 - Nov 1945
*The process of protein cleaving as a form of post-translational mod ...
, the present tense of the past participle "cleft"
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