0 If something splits or if you split it, it tears so that there is a long, thin hole in it. -- рвать(ся)
1 to divide into smaller parts or groups, or to divide something into smaller parts or groups -- раскалывать(ся), разделять(ся)
2 to share something by dividing it into smaller parts -- делить, распределять
3 If a group of people splits, or something splits them, they disagree and form smaller groups. -- раскалывать(ся), разделять(ся)
[ often passive ] The government was split on the issue of hunting.
This issue could split the Conservative Party.
4 a long, thin hole in something where it has broken apart -- прорезь, трещина
There's a split in my trousers.
5 the division of a group of people into smaller groups because they disagree about something -- раскол, раздор
Such periods of equilibrium, which lack major family-tree producing expansions and splits, may endure for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.
We will refer to this latter case as 'perfect tip splitting'.
First, it required a separation and splitting up of subject and object, of nature and culture and of mind and matter.
In this situation the political leaders adopted the strategy of splitting up this opposition alliance.
In gene-based selection in biological evolution and the reaction of the immune system to antigens, genes replicate by splitting and filling in the appropriate nucleotides.
The torus splits into three invariant sets on which the dynamics are quite different.
In particular, the complement of the central island in the rhombus splits into two or four dart-shaped objects located at opposite corners of the rhombus.
There are also many areas where people take sides or can't see what the problem is - like avoiding generic "he" or splitting infinitives.