splitting

See also: Splitting

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

splitting (plural splittings)

1. An instance where something splits.
2. (psychology) A division in the mind, or affecting one's sense of self.
   • 2007, Brett Kahr, Sex and the Psyche, Penguin, published 2008, page 308:

     In other words, something troubling, such as being discovered in the toilets in a shaming way, can be both remembered and also pushed to the periphery of consciousness, a process that psychotherapists refer to as ‘splitting’.

3. (chemistry) The cleavage of a covalent bond.

Descendants

• → German: Splitting

Translations

instance of splitting

• Dutch: splitsing (nl) f
• Hindi: विपाटन (hi) (vipāṭan), फटाव (hi) (phaṭāv)

Adjective

splitting (comparative more splitting, superlative most splitting)

1. Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.
2. Very rapid.

   They moved at a splitting pace.

3. Severely painful.

   I have a splitting headache.

Verb

splitting

1. present participle and gerund of split

Derived terms

• ear-splitting
• fee splitting
• fee-splitting
• hair-splitting
• heart-splitting
• Heegaard splitting
• side-splitting
• splitting field

 

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