n A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
n (context|leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
n (gymnastics|usually in the phrase “to do the splits”) The acrobatic feat of spreading the legs flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind.
n (context|bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
n A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
n A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard .75 liter bottle. Commercially comparable to 1/20th (US) gallon, which is 1/2 of a fifth.
n (context|athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
n (construction) A tear resulting from tensilestresses.
n (context|gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
v (transitive|ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.