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An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.

A piece made by splitting.

A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

(linguistics) To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as ''threat'' in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."

(ed-form)

split, divided, or partially divided into two. +