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  • verb Present participle of splinter.
  • noun The process or result of something being splintered.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of chipping something

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Examples

  • And perhaps that splintering is why Osama bin Laden's fantasy of a restored caliphate — an undivided Muslim empire, organic and hierarchic and centralized — now exerts its appeal (as did the Nasserite and later the Baath Party dream of a single Arab nation in which the old borders would be subsumed by one glorious whole).

    The Perils of Partition 2003

  • And perhaps that splintering is why Osama bin Laden's fantasy of a restored caliphate — an undivided Muslim empire, organic and hierarchic and centralized — now exerts its appeal (as did the Nasserite and later the Baath Party dream of a single Arab nation in which the old borders would be subsumed by one glorious whole).

    The Perils of Partition 2003

  • Now, some dyed-in-the-wool Republicans might blanch at the idea of splintering the national party.

    Top Stories - Google News 2008

  • You see the left wing kind of splintering in different groups.

    Book Your Trip: Nancy Pearl Picks Tales For Travel 2010

  • First, they are "splintering" their traditional supply chains into smaller, nimbler ones better prepared to manage higher levels of complexity.

    Building The Supply Chain Of The Future Yogesh Malik 2011

  • What Susan said above about the definition "splintering" makes sense to me.

    Burlesque Without Striptease Burlesque Daily 2008

  • This mythical "splintering" will happen because apostates always gain notice.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

  • The right is going through the same kind of splintering and factionalism that Dems went through for a long time.

    courierpress.com Stories 2010

  • The right is going through the same kind of splintering and factionalism that Dems went through for a long time.

    courierpress.com Stories 2010

  • So why all the bickering about these black guys "splintering" the movement?

    Liblogs.ca latest blog entries 2010

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