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語源

From split +‎ -er.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsplɪtə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈsplɪtɚ/, [ˈsplɪɾɚ]
• 韻: -ɪtə(ɹ)

名詞

splitter (plural splitters)

1. A person or a thing that splits.
2. A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
3. A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
4. (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

5. (baseball) A split-finger fastball.
6. (graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
7. (US) A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
8. One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
9. A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
10. (geometry) A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.

    Coordinate term: cleaver

同意語

• (GUI): sash

反意語

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

派生語

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.

アナグラム

• triplets, pretilts, Triplets, Spittler