Definition of "splintering" [splintering]

• Present participle of splinter. (verb)
• The process or result of something being splintered. (noun)

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• "And perhaps that splintering is why Osama bin Laden's fantasy of a restored caliphate — an undivided Muslim empire, organic and hierarchic and centralized — now exerts its appeal (as did the Nasserite and later the Baath Party dream of a single Arab nation in which the old borders would be subsumed by one glorious whole)."
• "Now, some dyed-in-the-wool Republicans might blanch at the idea of splintering the national party."
• "You see the left wing kind of splintering in different groups."