splintering 分裂, 分解
splintering[ noun ]
the act of chipping something
<noun.act>
Splinter \Splin"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Splintered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Splintering}.] [Cf. LG. splittern, splinteren. See
{Splint}, n., {Split}.]
1. To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as,
the lightning splinters a tree.
After splintering their lances, they wheeled about,
and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy.
--Prescott.
2. To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a
broken limb. --Bp. Wren.
- The Tennessee senator and Jesse Jackson each won a goodly share of the states and the delegates available Tuesday, splintering the standings among the Democratic hopefuls with Dukakis.
- Some have warned that the splintering could lead to an inability to govern.
- Last May, a CSX chemical tanker train derailed in Confluence, splintering a control tower and killing its operator, and forcing nearby residents to evacuate.
- The Soviet Union is preparing a treaty tying together its splintering republics as a loose confederation with strong economic links.
- Faced with a splintering empire, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is proposing to counter secessionist drives by transforming the Soviet Union into a looser federation of sovereign states, officials say.
- That was a provision designed to encourage coalitions and large parties, and to discourage splintering into small factions.
- Both are also members of the Inter-Regional Deputies Group, a group of parliamentarians who had considered but then dropped a proposal to proclaim themselves a "political opposition." The national Communist Party has already suffered one splintering.
- He said there are no signs of splintering in the government or security forces, and there is no popular support for the rebels.
- The long-awaited draft union treaty, published in major newspapers, is Gorbachev's attempt to stop the rapid splintering of political unity in this huge and diverse country of 285 million people.
- It resulted in the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam, the exchange of prisoners and the splintering of South Vietnam into Communist- and Saigon- controlled zones.