offsplit

present singular third person offsplits · participle present offsplitting · alternative off-split

1. ambitransitiveTo split off; secede.

   This effect is mostly valid for the condition mostly inclined to offsplit, ie.^([sic]) for a paint on gold.

   1999, Carlo Federici, Paola Munafò, editors, International conference on conservation and restoration of archival and library materials

plural offsplits · alternative off-split

1. A splitting off or breaking away from; a secession; divergence.

   If, in accordance with modern view of the phenomenology of religion, we want to look upon Baal as an offsplit of El, we are for several reasons prompted to regard this offsplit, at first hand, [...]

   1956, Gunnar Östborn, Yahweh and Baal

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   If he has any claim to innovative importance or influence, it is probably because of his Singspiele, produced in Vienna in the latter part of his career, which certainly hastened the offsplit of German opera from the Italian tradition.

   2007, David Mason Greene, Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers