2. Noun. (dance plurale tantum) A manoeuvre in dance or gymnastics by which the legs are extended straight out and perpendicular to the body, either to the sides or in front and behind. ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of split) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Splits
1. split [v] - See also: split
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splits
Literary usage of Splits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Textile design and colour by William Watson (1912)
"30 splits per inch, the amount of cram, or number of extra ends, may be obtained
by first finding the number of splits in the width of one repeat of the ..."
2. Arctic Experiences: Containing Capt. George E. Tyson's Wonderful Drift on by Euphemia Vale Blake (1874)
"Ice splits again, and destroys Joe's new Hut.—Standing ready for a Jump. ...
—The Ice splits once more, separating Mr. Meyers from the Party. ..."
3. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1910)
"Use about 12 gallons of the solution to every 8 splits. ... TO MAKE GOODYEAR splits.
If Goodyear splits are to be made the splits are to be trimmed so as to ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"The pressure at the point of split is the same for all the splits starting at
that point, whether the splits are equal or unequal. When the splits are equal ..."
5. Transactions. by New Hampshire Medical Society, American Ethnological Society (1858)
"... expended on the resistances, in that part of the general air-ways of the mine
over which the splits prevail, is P, as observed by a water-gauge, ..."
6. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1902)
"MANUFACTURE OF FLEXIBLE splits. After splits are selected at the belt knife machine,
... Put the solution in the mill, and let the splits follow. ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In fact its left side splits up into rational lineal factors, /(x)=o.(x — fi) .
. (x — M. Let f(x)=0, g(x)=Q be rational equations for the domain R, ..."
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