Definition of "split"

split

/splɪt/

adjective
not comparable
1. Divided.
  Quotations
  With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever.
  2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian‎
2. (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
3. (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
4. (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
5. (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
6. (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
noun
plural splits
1. A crack or longitudinal fissure.
2. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
3. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
  Quotations
  The kernels split in shelling, known as splits, form a fifth grade of shelled Virginia peanuts.
  1929, United States Tariff Commission, Agricultural products and provisions, page 1334
4. (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
5. (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
6. (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
7. (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
8. (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
9. A split shot or split stroke.
10. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
11. (US) gallon, which is 1⁄2 of a fifth.
12. A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
13. (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.
14. (video games) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.
15. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
16. (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
17. (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single.
verb
third-person singular simple present splits, present participle splitting, simple past and past participle split
1. (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
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  a huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water
  1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660
  The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. This system splits water molecules and delivers some of their electrons to other molecules that help build up carbohydrates.
  2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist‎, archived from the original on 3 September 2013
2. (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
3. (transitive) To share; to divide.
  Quotations
  Presently the 57-strong Class 378 fleet is split between the East London line and North London line, with 29 units allocated on the east side.
  2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18
4. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
5. (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
7. (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
  Quotations
  In the first case X 2 − 2 {\displaystyle X^{2}-2} , the minimum polynomial of 2 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}} , splits completely over Q ( 2 ) {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} ({\sqrt {2}})} ; in the second case we see that X 3 − 2 {\displaystyle X^{3}-2} , the minimum polynomial of 3 2 {\displaystyle 3{\sqrt {2}}} , does not split completely over Q ( 3 2 ) {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} (3{\sqrt {2}})} .
  2007, John M. Howie, Fields and Galois Theory, Springer, page 103
8. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
  Quotations
  The ship splits on the rock.
  c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iv]
9. (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
  Quotations
  1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]
10. (intransitive, slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
  Quotations
  " […] I split, and tell all […] "
  1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850
11. (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
12. (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.

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