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Definitions for SPLAT
splætsplat
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Princeton's WordNet
splatnoun
a single splash
"he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
splatverb
a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
splatverb
give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
splatverb
split open and flatten for cooking
"splat fish over an open fire"
splatverb
flatten on impact
"The snowballs splatted on the trees"
Wiktionary
splatnoun
The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
I didn't see the egg fall, but I heard the splat when it hit the floor.
splatnoun
The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint.
splatnoun
The cmd key on an Apple Macintosh.
splatnoun
Various characters appearing in computer character sets, particularly and .
splatnoun
The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
splatverb
To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.
The egg splatted onto the floor.
Etymology: Onomatopoeia
ChatGPT
splat
A splat is a term that can have several meanings depending on the context. It could refer to: 1. The sound made by a thick liquid or semi-solid object hitting a flat surface. 2. In computer science, it often refers to a wildcard character that can represent multiple values. 3. In furniture design, it's the central vertical component of a chair back. 4. It can also describe the action of spreading or splattering something. The common characteristic in all these meanings is the suggestion of a spreading or dispersing effect.
Wikidata
Splat
A splat is the vertical central element of a chair back. Typically this element of a chair is of exposed wood design. The splat is an important element of furniture identification, since its design has a multitude of variations incorporating the themes of different furniture periods. Chippendale's furniture was designed using varied splat details to include Gothic, Chinese, English and some with French details.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
splat
1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (*) character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive from the ‘squashed-bug’ appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers. 2. [MIT] Name used by some people for the # character (ASCII 0100011). 3. The feature key on a Mac (same as alt, sense 2). 4. obs. Name used by some people for the Stanford/ITS extended ASCII ⊗ character. This character is also called blobby and frob, among other names; it is sometimes used by mathematicians as a notation for tensor product. 5. obs. Name for the semi-mythical Stanford extended ASCII ⊕ character. See also ASCII.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of SPLAT in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of SPLAT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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