A setup with two non-adjacent cups remaining. [ More Info] See Also: Setup

A leave of two or more pins that does not include a head pin that has a gap, increasing the level of difficulty of conversion.

The holdem starting hand of Seven-Ten (7T). Named after a ten pin bowling term "the dreaded 7-10 split" the pins on opposite sides of the pin deck.

A spare leave in which the head pin is down and the remaining combination of pins have a gap in them, ranging from the 4-5 to the 7-10.

A spare leave in which the headpin is down and the remaining pins have another pin down immediately ahead of or between them so that the gap is greater than the width of the ball.

(tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl; "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame"

Spare leave in which the headpin is down and the remaining combination of pins have a pin down immediately ahead of or between them.

when there are pins left, with more than a balls width between them

Two or more pins remain standing after the first ball has been delivered; the number one pin has fallen and at least one pin is down between the remaining pins.

This is a spare left when two or more pins remain standing, but with a gap between them. Spares are naturally a little harder to make (since you need to put the ball between two pins, or slide one pin over into anothe) and bowlers don't like to leave a split. It is common to draw a circle round the pin-count on the score sheet to indicate that it was a split.

A spare combination in which the head pin is down and the remaining pins have one or more intermediate pins down immediately ahead of or behind them. There are 459 possible split combinations.

A split is a term in ten pin bowling used to describe a number of situations where two or more pins remain standing after the first ball of a frame with a gap between them, when the headpin (the "number 1 pin") is no longer standing after the first ball's delivery.