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
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Splittie English
- backsplit English
- hair English
- hairsplit English
- hairsplitter English
- hypersplit English
- netsplit English
- offsplit English
- oversplit English
- presplit English
- quasisplit English
- resplit English
- split English
- split end English
- split horizon English
- splitfin English
- splitfinger English
- splitless English
- splitproof English
- splitsville English
- splittable English
- splittee English
- splittercore English
- splitterism English
- splitty English
- splitwork English
- unsplit English
- splitata Finnish
- splitten German
- スプリッタ Japanese
- スプリッター Japanese
- splitten Middle Dutch
- splittism Chinese
- splittist Chinese
- splitten Middle Low German