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Definition of Splintering

1. Noun. The act of chipping something.

Definition of Splintering

1. Verb. (present participle of splinter) ¹

2. Noun. The process or result of something being splintered. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Splintering

1. splinter [v] - See also: splinter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Splintering

Literary usage of Splintering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Theory of Strains in Girders and Similar Structures: With Observations by Bindon Blood Stoney (1873)
"Crushing may be subdivided into buckling, bulging, and splintering. («. ... splintering is the splitting off in fragments of highly crystalline, fibrous, ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"He braced himself against the angle of the wall ; there was a splintering sound of wood, and the middle panel cracked across the bottom. ..."

3. Aggregation and Flow of Solids: Being the Records of an Experimental Study by George Thomas Beilby (1921)
"106 splintering scratches, furrows, and cleavage scratches . . . 106 Grinding is mainly due to splintering ..... 108 Steps in grinding and polishing . ..."

4. The Theory of Strains in Girders and Similar Structures with Observations on by Bindon Blood Stoney (1869)
"Crushing may be subdivided into buckling, bulging, and splintering. (a. ... splintering is the splitting off in fragments of crystalline, fibrous, ..."

5. Commentaries on the surgery of the war in Portugal, Spain, France, and the by George James Guthrie (1855)
"... if not previously existing ; die principal points to attend to in such cases > simple incised wounds of the joint; splintering of the head of the bone, ..."

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