meaning of split
1. of Split
2. To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
3. To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
4. To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.
5. To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
6. To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
7. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
8. To separate into parties or factions.
9. To burst with laughter.
10. To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
11. to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value.
12. A crack, or longitudinal fissure.
13. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
14. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
15. Specif (Leather Manuf. ), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
16. 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. the substitution of more than one share of a corporations stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
18. the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created.
19. Divided; cleft.
20. Divided deeply; cleft.
21. split chunker Split-C Parallel extension of C for distributed memory multiprocessors. Aims to provide efficient low-level access to the underlying machine. CM5 ftp://ftp. cs. berkeley. edu/ucb/CASTLE/Split-C. Mail-list: split-c@boing. cs. berkeley. edu. splot
22. division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in
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