the way something is with respect to its main attributes | the act of cleaving or splitting |
a politically organized body of people under a single government | the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts) |
the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state | (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum |
the territory occupied by a nation | the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules |
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | the state of being split or cleft |
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) | |