noun
- The place where something divides into branches.
- synonyms: furcation
- The act of branching out or dividing into branches.
- synonyms: branching, ramification, fork
Forking and Split
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(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Fork.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- Extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back. )
- A bottle containing half the usual amount.
- A promised or claimed share of loot or money.
- usage: "he demanded his split before they disbanded"
- A lengthwise crack in wood.
- usage: "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log"
- An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.
- usage: "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"
- An old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea.
- A dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts.
- Tenpin bowling. ( a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl)
- usage: "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame"
- An increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity.
- usage: "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock"
- synonyms: stock split, split up
- The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.
- usage: "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
- Division of a group into opposing factions.
- usage: "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"
- synonyms: schism
verb
- Separate into parts or portions.
- usage: "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
- Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
- usage: "cleave the bone"
- Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.
- usage: "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
- Go one's own way; move apart.
- usage: "The friends separated after the party"
- Come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure.
- usage: "The bubble burst"
- synonyms: burst, break open
adjective
- Having been divided; having the unity destroyed.
- usage: "Congress... Gave the impression of... A confusing sum of disconnected local forces-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations- E. B. White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group"
- synonyms: disconnected, disunited, fragmented
- Especially of wood. ( cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain)
- usage: "we bought split logs for the fireplace"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) Any of the air currents in a mine formed by dividing a larger current.
- (n.) A small bottle (containing about half a pint) of some drink; -- so called as containing half the quantity of the customary smaller commercial size of bottle; also, a drink of half the usual quantity; a half glass.
- (n.) The feat of going down to the floor so that the legs extend in a straight line, either with one on each side or with one in front and the other behind.
- (n.) Short for Split shot or stroke.
- (a.) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- (a.) Of quotations, given in sixteenth, quotations in eighths being regular; as, 10/ is a split quotation.
- (a.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price; -- said of an order, sale, etc.
- (n.) Any of the three or four strips into which osiers are commonly cleft for certain kinds of work; -- usually in pl.
- (n.) Any of the dents of a reed.
- (v.t.) To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
- (a.) Divided deeply; cleft.
- (v.i.) to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value.
- (n.) A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- (n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created.
- (imp.&p.p.) of Split.
- (v.i.) To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
- (v.i.) To burst with laughter.
- (n.) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- (v.t.) To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
- (n.) Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- (v.t.) To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, especially by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
- (n.) A piece that is split off or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- (v.i.) To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (v.i.) To separate into parties or factions.
- (n.) A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- (v.i.) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
- (v.t.) To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.
- (n.) the substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
- (a.) Divided; cleft.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
When a company increases the number of shares it has outstanding. In a two-for-one' Split', each share is split into two. The investor's percentage of equity in the company remains the same. So, if you had 100 shares valued at $50, each, after the split you would have 200 shares valued at $25 each. Companies often split their stock when the price gets too high. There are also reverse splits, when companies decrease the number of shares outstanding.