splitter
Pronunciation: /ˈsplɪtə(ɹ)/
The English word “splitter” has 10 meanings listed here.
noun
- A person or a thing that splits.
- A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
- A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
- A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
- A split-finger fastball.
- A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
- A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
- One who 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.
- A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.
Etymology
From split + -er.
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