# splitter
## English
### Etymology

From split +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)
* (UK) IPA: /ˈsplɪtə(ɹ)/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈsplɪtɚ/, [ˈsplɪɾɚ]
* Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)

### Noun

splitter (plural splitters)
* A person or a thing that splits.
* A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
* A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
* (colloquial) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
    Hyponym: species-monger
* (baseball) A split-finger fastball.
* (graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
* (US) A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
* One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
* A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
* (geometry) A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.
    Coordinate term: cleaver

#### Synonyms

* (GUI): sash

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “one who prefers to split categories”): lumper

#### Derived terms

* beam splitter
* hair-splitter
* log splitter
* middle splitter
* splitter bus
* thumb splitter
* Y-splitter

### Further reading

* “splitter”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* “splitter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “splitter”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “splitter”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

### Anagrams

* triplets, pretilts, Triplets, Spittler

## Danish
### Verb

splitter
* present of splitte

## German
### Verb

splitter
* inflection of splittern:
** first-person singular present
** singular imperative

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Danish splitter- and German splitter- (inseparable in both languages).

#### Adverb

splitter
* completely, entirely
    splitter naken ― stark naked, starkers (UK)
    splitter ny ― brand new

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

splitter m
* indefinite plural of splitt

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

splitter
* present of splitte

### References

* “splitter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Danish splitter- and German splitter- (used in compound form in both languages).

### Adverb

splitter
* completely, entirely
    splitter naken ― stark naked, starkers (UK)
    splitter ny ― brand new

### References

* “splitter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Splitter (“splinter”).

### Adverb

splitter (not comparable)
* utterly, totally
    Synonym: sprillans
    splitter nybrand new

#### Derived terms

* splitt
* splitterny
* spritt

### Noun

splitter n
* shrapnel, shard

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | splitter | splitters |
| singular | definite | splittret | splittrets |
| plural | indefinite | splitter | splitters |
| plural | definite | splittren | splittrens |

#### Derived terms

* bombsplitter
* glassplitter
* granatsplitter
* splitterbomb
* splitterfri
* splitterskada
* splitterskydd
* splittersäker

#### Related terms

* splittra

### References

* splitter in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* splitter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* splitter in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* splitter in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)