splitter

Meanings

Plural: splitters

Noun

• a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone
• a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
• a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences
• A person or a thing that splits.
• A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
• A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
• A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
• A split-finger fastball.
• A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
• 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.
• A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.

Synonyms

divider, rail-splitter, sash

Antonyms

lumper