(دستور زبان) مصدر گسسته (مثلا to understand در این عبارت: برای درک بهتر آن in order to better understand it)، مصدری که در میان خودان وعلامت ان واژه دیگری اورده باشندچون ekil ot
• : تعریف: an infinitive in which a word or group of words, usu. an adverb or adverbial phrase, comes between "to" and its following verb, as in "to easily succeed".
انگلیسی به انگلیسی
• a split infinitive is a construction in english in which an adverb or adjunct is put between the infinitive marker `to' and the infinitive verb itself. an example of a split infinitive is `to boldly go'. some speakers of english think that split infinitives are incorrect.