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The moment one becomes two, whether atom, banana, or relationship.
means To divide something into separate parts, or to leave a place quickly, or the share each person gets when something is divided up.
from From Old Dutch or Low German roots like 'splitten,' meaning to cleave or burst apart — a cousin of words like 'splinter' and 'splice.' It entered English in the late 1500s, likely through sailors and traders, originally describing the way wood or ships break along the grain. The slang 'let's split' (to leave fast) is a 20th-century American twist, picturing two people peeling away in different directions.
- gymnastic feat
- Most humans physically can't do a full one
- banana origin
- Invented by a 23-year-old pharmacist in 1904
- poker term
- A tied hand divides the pot evenly
- croatian city
- Split is a 1,700-year-old Roman palace town
- split second
- No fixed length, just dramatically short
bell telephone company breakup — 1984 antitrust decision that separated at&t into 7 regional companies
india partition — 1947 division creating india and pakistan, displacing 15 million people
korean peninsula division — 1945 split at 38th parallel creating north and south korea