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Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is a 2025 Netflix adult animated series, the first adaptation of Ubisoft's Splinter Cell games, created by Derek Kolstad, starring Liev Schreiber as Sam Fisher, renewed for season 2.
Splinting (medicine)
Splinting, including dynamic splinting, is the application of a rigid or adjustable device to immobilize, support, or position an injured limb or joint, applied noncircumferentially unlike a cast.
Split (2016 American film)
Split (2016) is M. Night Shyamalan's psychological horror thriller starring James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb, a kidnapper with 23 DID personalities, and Anya Taylor-Joy. A stealth sequel to Unbreakable, it grossed $278.5 million on a small budget and drew criticism for stigmatizing dissociative identity disorder.
Split air conditioner
A split air conditioner is a cooling and often heating system split between a quiet indoor unit and an outdoor compressor, including ductless mini-splits and multi-splits.
Split brain (computing)
Split brain in computing is a cluster failure state in which a network partition gives nodes conflicting membership views, risking data corruption; quorum and I/O fencing prevent it.
Split Chain
Split Chain are a Bristol, England rock band blending shoegaze, nu metal, and grunge ("nu gaze"/"dreamo"). Members Bert Martinez-Cowles, Oli Bowles, Jake Reid, Tom Davies, and Aaron Black released debut album motionblur on Epitaph in July 2025.
Split cord malformation type I
Split cord malformation type I (diastematomyelia, SCM type I): rare congenital dysraphism with two hemicords in separate dural sacs divided by a bony or cartilaginous spur; Pang 1992 classification, Mahapatra Ia-Id subtypes.
Split cord malformation type II
Split cord malformation type II (diplomyelia, SCM type 2): congenital spinal cord split into two hemicords within a single dural sac, separated by a fibrous septum, per Pang's 1992 classification; treated by cord detethering.
Split Enz
Split Enz, originally Split Ends, was a New Zealand rock band formed in Auckland in 1972. They gained popularity with their 1980 album, True Colours.
Split federated learning
Split federated learning (SFL) is a distributed machine learning method that splits a neural network between clients and a server, introduced by Chandra Thapa and colleagues in 2020.
Split Fiction
Split Fiction is a 2025 co-op action-adventure game where two players control Mio and Zoe. They are trapped in a simulation built from their own science fiction and fantasy stories.
Split graph
A split graph is a graph whose vertex set partitions into a clique and an independent set, defined by Földes and Hammer in 1977 and recognizable in linear time.
Split in darts
Split in darts: the 1992 breakaway of top players from the British Darts Organisation to form the World Darts Council, renamed PDC after the 1997 Tomlin order settlement; two rival world titles until the BDO collapsed in September 2020.
Split infinitive
A split infinitive places an adverb between 'to' and the verb (to boldly go). The prohibition, drawn from Latin analogy and 19th-century prescriptivism, is now rejected by major modern style guides.
Split inheritance and royal mummies
Split inheritance (herencia dividida y panacas) was the Andean practice by which a dead Inca's wealth stayed with his mummy and panaca, not his successor.
Split injection
Split injection is a gas chromatography sample introduction technique that divides vaporized samples at the inlet, preventing column overload and making it standard for concentrated samples and gases.
Split learning
Split learning is a distributed machine learning technique, developed at the MIT Media Lab in 2018, that partitions a neural network between clients and a server.
Split liver transplantation
Split liver transplantation (SLT) is a technique that divides one donated liver into two grafts, typically for a child and an adult, first performed successfully in 1988.
Split of Christianity and Judaism
The split of Christianity and Judaism is the historical process by which Christianity and rabbinic Judaism became separate religions, largely complete by the fourth century.
Split of the Easterners and Westerners
The split of the Easterners and Westerners (동서분당) divided the Joseon bureaucracy into the Easterner and Westerner factions in 1575, triggered by a rivalry between Kim Hyo-won and Sim Ui-gyeom.
Split of the Xiongnu into Northern and Southern Xiongnu
The split of the Xiongnu into Northern and Southern Xiongnu (匈奴南北分裂) divided the Xiongnu confederacy in 48 CE, when Bi proclaimed himself Southern Chanyu and submitted to the Han dynasty.
Split pea
Split peas are dried field pea (Pisum sativum) seeds, green or yellow, dehulled and split into cotyledons; a pulse used mainly for split pea soup, flour, and protein powder, with about 8 g protein and 8 g fiber per 100 g cooked.
Split Rock Lighthouse
Split Rock Lighthouse is a decommissioned lighthouse on a 130-foot cliff of Lake Superior's North Shore near Two Harbors, Minnesota, built in 1910 and opened to visitors as a historic site.
Split S2
Split S2: auscultated separation of the second heart sound into aortic (A2) and pulmonic (P2) components. Normally split on inspiration, single on expiration; fixed split suggests atrial septal defect, reverse split LBBB or aortic stenosis.
Split screen effect
Split screen effect: a film technique showing two or more complete images simultaneously in separate frame sections; also called split-screen shot or split frame; used since early silent cinema, notably Vertov, Gance's Polyvision, and 1960s films like The Thomas Crown Affair.
Split Second
Split Second (1992) is a British-American sci-fi horror film directed by Tony Maylam, starring Rutger Hauer as a detective hunting a heart-ripping killer in a flooded 2008 London; released 1 May 1992, distinct from the 2010 racing game Split/Second.
Split-and-mix peptide library synthesis
Split-and-mix peptide library synthesis, also called divide-couple-recombine synthesis, is a solid-phase method devised by Árpád Furka in which resin beads each end up carrying one unique peptide sequence.
Split-brain
Split-brain: condition after corpus callosotomy, severing the corpus callosum to treat drug-resistant epilepsy. Studied by Sperry, Bogen, and Gazzaniga from the 1960s; classic left-hand/left-visual-field findings; debate over split versus unified consciousness.
Split-complex number
The split-complex number, also called a Lorentz or double number, is a number x + yj where j² = 1, unlike the complex unit i² = −1.
Split-cycle engine
A split-cycle engine is a reciprocating internal combustion engine that divides the four strokes between two paired cylinders joined by a crossover passage; designs date to 1872 but none are in series production.