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1. (n.) splat
a broad, flat piece of wood, either pierced or solid, forming the center upright part of a chair back.
2. (n.) splat
a sound made by splattering or slapping.
Etymology: (1895–1900; back formation from splatter)
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| Definition of 'splat' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) splat
a single splash
"he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
2. (verb) splat
a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
3. (verb) splat
give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
4. (verb) splat
split open and flatten for cooking
"splat fish over an open fire"
5. (verb) splat
flatten on impact
"The snowballs splatted on the trees"
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| Definitions of 'splat' |
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. 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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