Word Meanings - DIFFISSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Act of cleaving or splitting. Bailey.

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• BAILEY
  ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• CLEAVELANDITE
  A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
• SPLITTER
  One who, or that which, splits.
• CLEAVAGE
  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
• CLEAVE
  clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of
• CLEAVERS
  A species of Galium , having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.
• CLEAVABLE
  Capable of cleaving or being divided.
• PHASE SPLITTER
  A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.
• EAR-SPLITTING
  Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.
• HAIRSPLITTER
  One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.
• HAIRSPLITTING
  Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n.
• PHASE SPLITTING
  The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches of a given circuit.