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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Fission :: Fission (n.) A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts..
Split :: Split (v. t.) To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid..
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.
Bivalve :: Bivalve (n.) A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.
Resplit :: Resplit (v. t. & i.) To split again.
Lumber :: Lumber (n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber..
Triploblastic :: Triploblastic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers..
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..
Split :: Split (n.) A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment..
Slate :: Slate (v. t.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.
Rend :: Rend (v. i.) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
River :: River (n.) One who rives or splits.
Split-tongued :: Splitter (n.) One who, or that which, splits..
Splitting :: Splitted () of Spli.
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..
Ferrule :: Ferrule (n.) A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing..
Tail :: Tail (n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
Cleavage :: Cleavage (n.) The act of cleaving or splitting.
Forelock :: Forelock (n.) A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun..
Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard..
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