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A '''cleft''' is an opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation.
'''Cleft''' may refer to:
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==Anatomy==
* [[Cleft lip and palate]], a congenital deformity
* [[Cleft chin]], a dimple on the chin
* [[Pudendal cleft]], part of the vulva
* [[Intergluteal cleft]], the groove between the buttocks
==Fiction==
* ''[[The Cleft]]'', a 2007 novel by Nobel prize laureate Doris Lessing
* [[Cleft, the Boy Chin Wonder]], a character in ''The Fairly Odd Parents''
==Linguistics==
* [[Cleft sentence]], a type of grammatical construction
==Places==
* [[Cleft Island (Antarctica)]]
* [[Cleft Island (Victoria)]]
* [[Cleft Ledge]]
* [[Cleft Point]]
* [[Cleft Peak]]
* [[Cleft Rock]]
==See also==
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* [[Cleave (disambiguation)]], the present tense of the past participle "cleft"
* [[Clef (disambiguation)]]
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