splitter

English

noun
Definitions
  • A person or a thing that splits.
  • A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
  • (colloquial) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
  • (baseball) A split-finger fastball.
  • (graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
  • (US) A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
  • One who split splits hairs in argument, etc.
  • A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.

Etymology

Affix from English split.

Origin

English

split

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