A cleft is an opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation. Cleft may refer to:

Anatomy

Cleft lip and palate A cleft lip contains an opening in the upper lip that may extend into the nose. The opening may be on one side, both sides, or in the middle. A cleft palate occurs when the palate (the roof of the mouth) contains an opening into the nose. The t ...

, a congenital deformity *

Cleft chin The chin is the forward pointed part of the anterior mandible ( mental region) below the lower lip. A fully developed human skull has a chin of between 0.7 cm and 1.1 cm. Evolution The presence of a well-developed chin is considered to be on ...

, a dimple on the chin *

Pudendal cleft The vulva (plural: vulvas or vulvae; derived from Latin for wrapper or covering) consists of the external female sex organs. The vulva includes the mons pubis (or mons veneris), labia majora, labia minora, clitoris, vestibular bulbs, v ...

, part of the vulva *

Intergluteal cleft The intergluteal cleft or just gluteal cleft, also known by a number of synonyms, including natal cleft, butt crack, and cluneal cleft, is the groove between the buttocks that runs from just below the sacrum to the perineum, so named because it f ...

, the groove between the buttocks

Fiction

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The Cleft ''The Cleft'' (2007) is a novel by Doris Lessing. Plot summary The story is narrated by a Roman historian, during the time of the Emperor Nero. He tells the story as a secret history of humanity's beginnings, as pieced together from scraps of do ...

'', a 2007 novel by Nobel prize laureate Doris Lessing *

Cleft, the Boy Chin Wonder This article features an extensive cast of characters from the Nickelodeon animated series ''The Fairly OddParents'', created by Butch Hartman. Main Timmy Turner Timothy Tiberius Turner is a 10-year-old boy who was given fairy godparents to gran ...

, a character in ''The Fairly Odd Parents''

Linguistics

Cleft sentence A cleft sentence is a complex sentence (one having a main clause and a dependent clause) that has a meaning that could be expressed by a simple sentence. Clefts typically put a particular constituent into focus. In spoken language, this focusing i ...

, a type of grammatical construction

Places

Cleft Island (Antarctica) Cleft Island is a small island to the north of the Bølingen Islands, lying southeast of Lichen Island in southern Prydz Bay. The island is split by a deep channel about wide. The island was plotted from air photos taken by the Lars Christens ...

Cleft Island (Victoria) Cleft Island, also known as Skull Rock, is a small, rugged, granite island in the Anser group of islands to the south-west of Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia. The island is within Wilsons Promontory National Park. The surrounding wate ...

Cleft Ledge Cleft Ledge () is a flat-topped ridge long and wide between Shaw Trough and Healy Trough in the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. The ledge rises to and is 0.3 nautical miles northwest of Hoffman Ledge. The name is descriptive a ...

Cleft Point Cleft Point () is a headland on the east side of Norway Bight on the south coast of Coronation Island, South Orkney Islands. The point marks the western extremity of an island which is separated from Coronation Island by a narrow channel, but it wa ...

Cleft Peak Cleft Peak is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies on the North West end of the Frankland Range jutting out toward the East from the range toward the impoundment Lake Pedder. It is South East of Murpheys Bluff and North West of G ...

Cleft Rock Pine Hills is a sparsely populated hilly region located in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is a large, mostly undeveloped hilly and forested area lying south of Plymouth Beach and Chiltonville, north of Manomet, and east of Ro ...

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