escindir

v.

1 to split.

2 to excise, to exsect.

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escindir

► verbo transitivo

1 to split, divide

► verbo pronominal escindirse

1 to split (off) (en, into)

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1.

VT to split, divide

el partido está escindido — the party is split o divided

2.

See:

escindirse

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= hive off, sever, splinter.

Ex. Non-fiction is normally shelved according to the Dewey decimal system with perhaps a major category such as autobiography and biography hived off as a completely separate ad hoc classification.

Ex. This art is is mass produced, often mechanically, and thus severed from tradition.

Ex. The computers in education movement has further splintered rather than integrated these communities.

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* escindirse (de) = secede (from).

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= hive off, sever, splinter.

Ex: Non-fiction is normally shelved according to the Dewey decimal system with perhaps a major category such as autobiography and biography hived off as a completely separate ad hoc classification.

Ex: This art is is mass produced, often mechanically, and thus severed from tradition.

Ex: The computers in education movement has further splintered rather than integrated these communities.

* escindirse (de) = secede (from).

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escindir [I1 ]

vt

A

1 (dividir) ‹nación› to partition; ‹empresa› to split

2 (separar) to disassociate

para lograr escindir la medicina de sus prácticas religiosas to succeed in dissociating medicine from their religious practises*

3 (Fís) to split

B (Med) to remove

C (Fin) ‹activos/subsidiaria› to sell off, dispose of

■ escindirse

v pron

1 (dividirse) to split escindir EN algo to split INTO sth

el partido se escindió en dos grupos the party split into two groups

2 (separarse) escindir DE algo to break away FROM sth

el grupo pro-europeo se escindió del partido the pro-European group broke away from the party

3 (Fís) to split

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escindir

♦ vt

1. [grupo] to split (en into)

2. [átomo] to split (en into)

♦ See also the pronominal verb escindirse

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escindir

v/t split