Definition of split

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Split (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..

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Cleavage :: Cleavage (n.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting..
Axe :: Axe (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle..
Split-tongued :: Splitter (n.) One who, or that which, splits..
Fissile :: Fissile (a.) Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals..
Rift :: Rift (v. i.) To burst open; to split.
Splinter :: Splinter (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.
Enterocoele :: Enterocoele (n.) A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo..
Split :: Split (v. t.) To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid..
Split :: Split (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.
Skiving :: Skiving (n.) A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side..
Skiving :: Skiving (n.) The act of paring or splitting leather or skins.
Rift :: Rift (v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds..
Split :: Split (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..
Chap :: Chap (v. t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.
Split :: Split (v. t.) To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
Kipper :: Kipper (n.) A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh..
Unwedgeable :: Unwedgeable (a.) Not to be split with wedges.
Cleavage :: Cleavage (n.) The act of cleaving or splitting.
Slat :: Slat (v. t.) To split; to crack.
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