👉 Splintering is a term used in the field of linguistics and computer science to describe the process by which words are broken into smaller parts or segments. In other words, it refers to the breaking down of a word into its constituent elements or components. For example, "apple" can be broken down into its individual letters: "a" (head), "p" (body), and "l" (leaf). This is because the letter "a" is the head of the word
