Splitter or splitters may refer to:
Technology
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DSL filter
A DSL filter (also DSL splitter or microfilter) is an analog circuit, analog low-pass filter installed between analog devices (such as telephones or analog modems) and a plain old telephone service (POTS) line. The DSL filter prevents interfe ...
or DSL splitter, in telecommunications
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Fiber-optic splitter
A fiber-optic splitter, also known as a beam splitter, is based on a quartz substrate of an integrated waveguide optical power distribution device, similar to a coaxial cable transmission system. The optical network system uses an optical sign ...
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Hybrid coil
A hybrid coil (or bridge transformer, or sometimes hybrid) is a transformer that has three windings, and which is designed to be configured as a circuit having four ports that are conjugate in pairs.
A signal arriving at one port is divided e ...
, a three windings transformer
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Power dividers and directional couplers
Power dividers (also power splitters and, when used in reverse, power combiners) and directional couplers are passive devices used mostly in the field of radio technology. They couple a defined amount of the electromagnetic power in a transmiss ...
, in RF engineering
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Siamese connection
A siamese connection or splitter in fire protection engineering is a pipe fitting that allows two or more fire hoses to be connected to a single standpipe riser at the same general location.
It is so-called due to the visual similarity to siames ...
for hydrants and fire hoses
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Splitter (automotive)
A diffuser, in an automotive context, is a shaped section of the car rear which improves the car's aerodynamic properties by enhancing the transition between the high-velocity airflow underneath the car and the much slower freestream airflow of t ...
, an aerodynamic feature in cars
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table saw
A table saw (also known as a sawbench or bench saw in England) is a woodworking tool, consisting of a circular saw blade, mounted on an arbor, that is driven by an electric motor (either directly, by belt, or by gears). The blade protrudes thr ...
safety device
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Y-cable
A Y-cable, Y cable, or splitter cable is a cable with three ends: one common end and two other ends. The Y-cable can resemble the Latin letter " Y".
Uses
Analog audio/video signals
There are five common uses for Y-cables in signal paths:
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, a type of cable containing three ends of which one is a common end that in turn leads to a split into the remaining two ends
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Phase splitter
A phase splitter is a device that separates a signal into multiple phases (or polarities).
The term is most often applied to amplifiers that produce two "balanced" voltage outputs: of equal amplitude but opposite polarity (i.e. 180 degrees phase ...
Science and mathematics
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Splitter (geometry)
In Euclidean geometry, a splitter is a line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle (that is, a cevian) that bisects the perimeter of the triangle. They are not to be confused with cleavers, which also bisect the perimeter but instea ...
, a line segment of a triangle
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Lumpers and splitters
Lumpers and splitters are opposing factions in any discipline that has to place individual examples into rigorously defined categories. The lumper–splitter problem occurs when there is the desire to create classifications and assign examples t ...
, opposing tendencies in any discipline which has to place individual examples into rigorously defined categories
Sports
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Split-finger fastball
A split-finger fastball or splitter is an off-speed pitch in baseball that looks to the batter like a fastball until it drops suddenly. Derived from the forkball, it is so named because the pitcher puts the index and middle finger on different ...
, or splitter, a baseball throwing technique
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Mark Splitter
Mark Splitter is an American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalpost ...
, an American college football coach
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Tiago Splitter
Tiago Splitter Beims (born January 1, 1985) is a Brazilian former professional basketball player who played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently serving as player development coach for the Brooklyn Nets. A ...
, a Brazilian basketball player
Other uses
* Another name for fictional superhero
Arm Fall Off Boy
Abel
Abin Sur
Abra Kadabra (character)
Abby Holland
Ace the Bat-Hound
Acrata
Acrata (Andrea Rojas) is a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics who was created as part of the ''Planet DC'' annuals event. Sh ...
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TimeSplitters
''TimeSplitters'' is a series of first-person shooter video games developed by Free Radical Design. The games are often considered spiritual successors to '' GoldenEye 007'' and ''Perfect Dark'', due to overlapping elements in gameplay, design, ...
, a first-person shooter video game
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File splitter
A demultiplexer for digital media files, or media demultiplexer, also called a file splitter by laymen or consumer software providers, is software that demultiplexes individual elementary streams of a media file, ''e.g.'', audio, video, or subtit ...
, in computing, a media demultiplexer
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Splittermuster
Splittertarnmuster, Splittertarn or Splittermuster ( splinter-pattern) is a four-colour military camouflage pattern developed by Germany in the late 1920s, first issued to the Reichswehr in 1931.
Development
Splittertarnmuster was first printe ...
, a World War II-era German camouflage pattern
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Split (disambiguation)
Split(s) or The Split may refer to:
Places
* Split, Croatia, the largest coastal city in Croatia
* Split Island, Canada, an island in the Hudson Bay
* Split Island, Falkland Islands
* Split Island, Fiji, better known as Hạfliua
Arts, entert ...
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Splitting (disambiguation)
Splitting may refer to:
* Splitting (psychology)
* Lumpers and splitters
Lumpers and splitters are opposing factions in any discipline that has to place individual examples into rigorously defined categories. The lumper–splitter problem occu ...
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