splinter group

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   a faction or sect that has broken away from its parent organization

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Questions about splinter group

What does splinter group mean?

splinter group means "a faction or sect that has broken away from its parent organization".

Is splinter group a common word?

splinter group is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.