Meaning

noun a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together

noun joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together

verb join the ends of

originCirca 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic…

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