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splitter

Pronunciation: /ˈsplɪtə(ɹ)/

The English word “splitter” has 10 meanings listed here.

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.

Etymology

From split + -er.

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