verb To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
The wings clove the foggy air.
verb To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
verb To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
The truck clove a path through the ice.
verb (chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
verb To split.
verb Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
noun Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
noun A cut (slash) or a cut location, either naturally or artificially.