Spaltung

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German

 Spaltung on German Wikipedia

Etymology

spalten +‎ -ung

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃpaltʊŋ/,
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Spal‧tung

Noun

Spaltung f (genitive Spaltung, plural Spaltungen)

  1. division
    • 1990, “Zwei-plus-Vier-Vertrag”, in Bundesgesetzblatt, part 2, page 1318:
      eingedenk der jüngsten historischen Veränderungen in Europa, die es ermöglichen, die Spaltung des Kontinents zu überwinden, [...]
      Mindful of the recent historic changes in Europe which make it possible to overcome the division of the continent;
  2. (psychology) splitting
  3. (nuclear physics) fission

Declension

Further reading

  • Spaltung” in Duden online
  • Spaltung” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache