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splitting en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsplɪtɪŋ/

Meanings

  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.

Forms

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more splitting Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most splitting Degree=Sup lexicographic

splitting en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsplɪtɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) An instance where something splits.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A division in the mind, or affecting one's sense of self.
    • 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’. 2007, Brett Kahr, Sex and the Psyche, Penguin, published 2008, page 308:
  3. (countable, uncountable) The cleavage of a covalent bond.

Forms

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splittings Number=Plur lexicographic

Descendants

Splitting

Translations (3)

hi विपाटन (instance of splitting) · hi फटाव (instance of splitting) · nl splitsing (instance of splitting)

splitting en · VERB

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsplɪtɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of split
    form of split

Deriveds

side-splitting · antisplitting · sidesplitting · earsplitting · job splitting · straw-splitting · ear-splitting · splitting field · fee splitting · hairsplitting · hair-splitting · fee-splitting · splittingly · heart-splitting · Heegaard splitting · skull-splitting