The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted;
division; separation.
A separation; a leave-taking.
A surface or line of separation where a
division occurs.
The surface of the sand
of one section of a mold where it meets that of another
section.
The separation and
determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold
from silver in the assay button.
A joint or fissure, as in a
coal seam.
The breaking, as of a cable,
by violence.
Lamellar separation in a
crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the
presence of twinning lamellæ.
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