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splitting 1. (of a headache) intolerably painful; acute 2. (of the head) assailed by an overpowering unbearable pain 3. Psychoanal the Freudian defence mechanism in which an object or idea (or, alternatively, the ego) is separated into two or more parts in order to remove its threatening meaning splitting [′splid·iŋ] (electronics) In the scope presentation of the standard loran (2000 kilohertz), signals the slow diminution of the leading or lagging edge of the pulse so that it resembles two pulses and eventually a single pulse, which appears to be normal but which may be displaced in time by as much as 10,000 microseconds; this phenomenon is caused by shifting of the E1reflections from the ionosphere, and if the deformation is that of the leading edge and is not detected, it will cause serious errors in the reading of the navigational parameter. (mining engineering) Lamina of mica with a maximum thickness of 0.0012 inch (30 micrometers), split from blocks and thins. One of a pair of horizontal level headings driven through a pillar, in pillar workings, in order to mine the pillar coal. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| There are also strange overlappings and splittings of topics in some of the book's otherwise excellent historical/biographical entries. Dan Graham's Homes for America, 1966-67--another slide show (unaccompanied by recorded commentary)--is installed in a distant gallery of its own, its proximity to photographs documenting Gordon Matta-Clark's house splittings restoring the critical edge to both projects that canonical status arguably dulls. gender is an 'act' that is open to splittings, self-parody, self-criticism, and those hyperbolic exhibitions of 'the natural' that, in their very exaggeration, reveal its fundamen tally phantasmic status". |
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