splitting
very fast or rapid.
Usually splittings. a part or fragment that has been split off from something: Some cavemen made their smaller tools from the splittings of stone.
Origin of splitting
1Other words from splitting
- an·ti·split·ting, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for splitting
/ (ˈsplɪtɪŋ) /
(of a headache) intolerably painful; acute
(of the head) assailed by an overpowering unbearable pain
psychoanal the Freudian defence mechanism in which an object or idea (or, alternatively, the ego) is separated into two or more parts in order to remove its threatening meaning
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