splat

Pronunciation:		splat
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WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair [n] a single splash; "he heard a splat as it hit the floor" [v] flatten on impact; "The snowballs splatted on the trees" [v] split open and flatten for cooking, as of fish over an open fire [v] give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact

	See Also:	flatten, flatten out, go, plash, side chair, slat, sound, splash, spline, straight chair

Computing Dictionary

	Definition:	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]

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