splat

n. flat piece of wood which forms the center upright part of a chair back

Splat may refer to:A mark/spot on a surface caused by a liquid material (paint, etc)Splat, an element of the chairSplat, A musical to teach the NSW School ValuesSplat, a computer science colloquialism for the asterisk symbolTexture splat, a computer graphics effectNickelodeon SPLAT!, a Canadian documentary series about animation featuring such artists as Craig McCraken and Bill PlimptonCharacter class (slang), derived from the term splatbookRemote control (slang)Splat Pack, a collection of filmmakers
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Noun
1. a single splash; "he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
(hypernym) splash, plash
2. a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
(hypernym) slat, spline
(part-holonym) straight chair, side chair
Verb
1. give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
(hypernym) sound, go
2. split open and flatten for cooking; "splat fish over an open fire"
(hypernym) flatten
(classification) cooking, cookery, preparation
3. flatten on impact; "The snowballs splatted on the trees"
(hypernym) flatten, flatten out

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. Name used by some MIT people for the "#" character (ASCII 35).
3. (Rochester Institute of Technology) The feature key on a Mac (same as alt).
4. An obsolete name used by some people for the Stanford/ITS extended ASCII circle-x 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. An obsolete name for the semi-mythical Stanford extended ASCII circle-plus character.
See also ASCII.
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-19)

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