noun — 3 senses
Etymology Named for the resemblance of the aircraft's flightpath to the upper or lower half of the letter S (an aircraft performing two split Ses in sequence, with the first split S leading immediately into the second, would trace out a flightpath in the shape of a vertical S).
Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft, starting from upright level flight, rolls inverted and then performs one-half of an inside loop, ending up in upright level flight in the opposite direction at a lower altitude; equivalent to an Immelmann turn (modern sense) performed in reverse.
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A grammatical system that splits the class of intransitive subjects, using a morphosyntactic alignment called active–stative alignment, or split intransitive alignment.
Alternative Alternative form of split S.
Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for split S and split-S.