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SPLITTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree
Example:
heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward
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Similar:
cacophonic; cacophonous (having an unpleasant sound)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb split
Context examples:
Issue associated with any structural discontinuity in the material; collective term for cracks, splitting etc.
(Fracture of Medical Device Material, Food and Drug Administration)
Splitting or dissection of an arterial wall by blood entering through an intimal tear or by interstitial hemorrhage.
(Dissecting Aneurysm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A cell formed in the first stages of embryonic development, after the splitting of the fertilized ovum, but before the formation of the blastula or blastocyst.
(Embryonic Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
To his right walked a huge red-headed man, with broad smile and merry twinkle, whose clothes seemed to be bursting and splitting at every seam, as though he were some lusty chick who was breaking bravely from his shell.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One potential way that oxygen could have gotten into the Martian atmosphere is from the breakdown of water when Mars was losing its magnetic field. without a protective magnetic field to shield the surface, ionizing radiation started splitting water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.
(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)
She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
During evolution, this process has been deactivated because it wasn’t necessary for survival but we successfully managed to bypass the inactivity to achieve the reaction we wanted – splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.
(Scientists pioneer a new way to turn sunlight into fuel, University of Cambridge)
In the 17th century, Isaac Newton, through his observations on the splitting of light by a prism, sowed the seeds for a new field of science studying the interactions between light and matter – spectroscopy.
(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)
"Remember!" she said, trying to smile, for the splitting headache had already begun.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Wolf Larsen had taken to his bunk with one of his strange, splitting headaches.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
