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Shattering vs Splitting - What's the difference?

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Shattering is a related term of splitting.


As verbs the difference between shattering and splitting

is that shattering is while splitting is .

As nouns the difference between shattering and splitting

is that shattering is the act of something that shatters while splitting is an instance where something.

As an adjective splitting is

resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.

shattering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that shatters.
  • * 1997 , J. Wright, Realism and Explanatory Priority (page 226)
    • It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings , because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass)

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    splitting

    English

    (wikipedia splitting)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance where something .
  • (psychology) A division in the mind, or affecting one's sense of self.
  • * 2007 , Brett Kahr, Sex and the Psyche , Penguin 2008, p. 308:
    • In other words, something troubling, such as being discovered in the toilets in a shaming way, can be both remembered and also pushed to the periphery of consciousness, a process that psychotherapists refer to as ‘splitting ’.
  • (chemistry) The cleavage of a covalent bond.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.
  • Severe.
    • I have a splitting headache.

    Verb

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