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Spliff
Spliff was a German rock band from West Berlin, formed around 1980 from the Nina Hagen Band, best known for the 1982 album 85555 and its hit single "Carbonara".
Spline (mathematics)
A spline, also called a spline curve or spline function, is a piecewise polynomial function whose pieces join smoothly at breakpoints, used to interpolate data.
Spline interpolation
Spline interpolation, or interpolating spline, fits a low-degree piecewise polynomial, usually cubic, through data points with smooth joins at the knots, avoiding the wild oscillations of single high-degree polynomials; I. J. Schoenberg introduced it in 1946.
Spline regression
Spline regression fits piecewise polynomials, typically cubic, constrained to join smoothly at knots to model nonlinear relationships; variants include smoothing splines, P-splines, natural splines, and Friedman's MARS.
Spline+
Spline+ is a 2011 two-player abstract ball-stacking game by Néstor Romeral Andrés, an extension of Spline in the Shibumi system; players place or move marbles on a 4×4 board to form a winning line on any pyramid level.
Splint (medicine)
Splint (medicine): noncircumferential plaster, fiberglass, or thermoplastic appliance immobilizing an injury across the joints above and below it. Distinguished from circumferential casts and prefabricated braces; used for fractures, sprains, and tendon injuries.
Splint therapy
Splint therapy is a dental treatment in which a custom-made removable appliance worn over the teeth treats jaw joint disorders and teeth grinding, protecting them from clenching damage.
Splinter (2008 film)
Splinter (2008) is an American horror film, Toby Wilkins's feature debut, starring Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, and Paulo Costanzo. Parasite creature feature set at an Oklahoma gas station; 82 minutes, Magnet Releasing, six Screamfest 2008 awards, $522,497 worldwide gross.
Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Splinter is the mutant rat sensei and adoptive father of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, debuting in TMNT #1 (May 1984). Origins vary: Hamato Yoshi's pet rat (Mirage) versus mutated Hamato Yoshi (1987 cartoon); IDW makes him Yoshi's reincarnation.
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.