English edit

Etymology edit

cleave +‎ -ability

Noun edit

cleavability (countable and uncountable, plural cleavabilities)

  1. Quality or degree of being cleavable.
    • 2015, Pascal Buijs et al., “Recombinant Immunomodulating Lentogenic or Mesogenic Oncolytic Newcastle Disease Virus for Treatment of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma”, in Viruses[1], volume 7, →DOI:
      However, increasing the virulence of rNDV by increasing cleavability of the F protein lead[sic] to a significant improvement of oncolytic activity of recombinant NDV.