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Cleft

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A cleft is an opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation.

Cleft may refer to:

Linguistics

A cleft sentence, a type of grammatical construction

Anatomy

Cleft lip and palate, a congenital deformity
A cleft chin, a dimple on the chin
The pudendal cleft, part of the female genitalia
Intergluteal cleft, the groove between the buttocks

Places

Cleft Island (Antarctica)
Cleft Island (Victoria)
Cleft Ledge
Cleft Point
Cleft Peak
Cleft Rock

Fiction

The Cleft, a novel by 2007 Nobel prize laureate Doris Lessing
The Cleft, a fictional location in Age of D'ni from the computer game Myst
Cleft, the Boy Chin Wonder, a character in The Fairly Odd Parents
Rainbow Cleft (Cirith Ninniach), a minor place in Beleriand, J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.

See also

Cleave (disambiguation), the present tense of the past participle "cleft"

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