splinter

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Editorial note

They are far less likely to have splinter, warp, and degrade.

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Quick take

a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of splinter gathered in one view.

noun

a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers"

verb

withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"

verb

divide into slivers or splinters

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for splinter.

noun

a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers"

verb

withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"

verb

divide into slivers or splinters

verb

break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered"

Example sentences

They are far less likely to have splinter, warp, and degrade.

Abstractions leak, and if abstractions like this get traction they splinter tools' abilities to do useful things.

"Whilst avoiding forking prevents splintering it can also be dangerous.

I haven't had time to do the final sanding, polish the legs, and finish the surface with oil. Being exposed to food oils and fats, the surface needs to be finished before you can use it, otherwise it'll chip, split & splinter.

After all, a surgeon probably doesn't follow surgical best practices when removing a splinter from his child's finger.

With a machine gun, gas canisters, etc., it sounds pretty organized, not a random splinter group of angry students or anything.

I know there is an ongoing effort to switch to reviewboard [2] at the moment, as we feel our review tool should do more that what splinter is capable of doing.

I think the key point is that the Zynga formula was easy to recreate, and so competition entered and started to splinter the market pie up. Basic market economics principle.

Rather than starting with the small fish and cutting deals up to the top, they hit the ostensible mouthpiece/leader and wraps up all of the other folks in the org so that it doesn't splinter off and create successor orgs.

This stems from the conflict and fragmentation that rash statements have caused in the past, which have included millenia-long strife with the Catholic Church and various groups regarded as sects or heretical splinter churches.