English Explanatory Dictionary

splitter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person or a thing that splits.
  2. A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
  3. A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
  4. A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
  5. A split-finger fastball.
  6. A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
  7. A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
  8. One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
  9. A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
  10. A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-splitter.wav /ˈsplɪtə(ɹ)/ /ˈsplɪtɚ/ [ˈsplɪɾɚ]

Word forms

splitter splitters

Etymology

From split + -er.

Synonyms

sash

Antonyms

lumper

Derived words

beam splitter hair-splitter hairsplitter log splitter middle splitter sidesplitter splitter bus splittercore splitterism Splitters Creek thumb splitter Y-splitter
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