the act of cleaving or splitting | the way something is with respect to its main attributes |
the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts) | a politically organized body of people under a single government |
(embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum | the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state |
the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules | the territory occupied by a nation |
the state of being split or cleft | the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation |
| a state of depression or agitation |
| (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) |