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splitter.

A person or a thing that splits.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsplɪtə(ɹ)/UK/ˈsplɪtɚ/General-American[ˈsplɪɾɚ]General-American
  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.

    colloquial
  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.

    US
  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.

Where this word comes from

Etymology tree English split Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English splitter From split + -er.

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