- a part or fragment that has been split off from something: Some cavemen made their smaller tools from the splittings of stone.
- (of a headache) intolerably painful; acute
- (of the head) assailed by an overpowering unbearable pain
- the Freudian defence mechanism in which an object or idea (or, alternatively, the ego) is separated into two or more parts in order to remove its threatening meaning
