Splitter
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Splitter may refer to:
Electronics
- A DSL filter, in telecommunications
- A radio-frequency hybrid coil in cable television
Sports
- A split-finger fastball, a baseball pitch (throwing technique)
- Tiago Splitter, Brazilian basketball player
- A splitter is someone that plans to leave the group/team, and stops contributing to team activities.
Engineering and Mathematics
- An aerodynamic device used on race cars, under the front bumper, nose, or chin, to prevent air from passing under the car. For example, the splitter is a prominent feature of NASCAR's "Car of Tomorrow". It is similar to a diffuser, but works by accelerating air, as opposed to decelerating it.
- In geometry, a splitter in a line segment bisecting the perimeter of a triangle and having one endpoint at a vertex.
Other
- See lumpers and splitters: a taxonomist who prefers to split taxonomic groups when the decision whether to split is not settled.
- In woodworking, a splitter is a safety device on a table saw.
- In computing, a splitter is a common name for a media demultiplexer.