split S noun2 •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. •A grammatical system that splits the class of intransitive subjects, using a morphosyntactic alignment called active–stative alignment, or split intransitive alignment. formssplit Ses · split-Ses