Split Second

Definition: Split Second

1. A very short time (as the time it takes to blink once); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash".

Modern Usage: Split Second

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Boy, sometimes all it takes is a split second for you to do something you'll regret the whole rest of your life. (The War; writing credit: Kathy McWorter)
Movie/TV Titles	Split Second (1972) The Last Split Second (1998) Split Second (1986)
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Commercial Usage: Split Second

Domain	Title
Books	100 Bullets: Split Second Chance (reference) Split Second (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Tales from the Crypt: Split Second (reference) Split Second (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Use in Literature: Split Second

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	It was as though they were afraid something might happen in the split second of darkness.
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Expression: Split Second

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Split Second

Modern Translation: Split Second

Language		Translations for "split second"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		blitzschnell (in a flash, lickety-split, lightning, like lightning, smart, smartly). (various references)

Hungarian		másodperc törtrésze, másodperc töredéke. (various references)

Pig Latin		itsplay econdsay

Russian		мгновение ока (twinkling of the eye), доля секунды. (various references)

Turkish		salise, an (flash, instant, jiff, jiffy, minute, moment, point, second, snatch, span, trice, wink). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Split Second

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-l-n-o-p-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: consisted, pointless.
	-3 letters: cestoids, coldness, deposits, despoils, despotic, diplonts, diploses, discepts, disclose, dopiness, epsilons, inclosed, incloses, inspects, lections, leptonic, pinocles, pistoled, pistoles, plenists, potlines, sections, solecist, solidest, solstice, spindles, splinted, stencils, stipends, telsonic, toplines, topsides.
	-4 letters: cession, cesspit, cestoid, cineols, citoles, clients, closest, closets, codeins, codlins, coedits, coldest, consist, cosiest, cosines, ctenoid, delicts.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-l-n-o-p-s-s-t"
	+3 letters: encyclopedists.
	+4 letters: complicatedness.
	+5 letters: septendecillions.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
split second	34
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Expression using "split second": a split second. Additional references.
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