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What (who) is splat - definition

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Splat!; Splat (disambiguation); SPLAT

splat         
splat1
¦ noun a piece of thin wood in the centre of a chair back.
Origin
C19: from obs. splat 'split up'; related to split.
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splat2
informal
¦ noun a sound of something soft and wet or heavy striking a surface.
¦ adverb with a splat.
¦ verb (splats, splatting, splatted) hit or land with a splat.
Origin
C19: abbrev. of splatter.
splat         
Splat is used to describe the sound of something wet hitting a surface with a lot of force.
The egg landed on my cheek with a splat.
N-SING; SOUND
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. 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)

Wikipedia

Splat

Splat may refer to:

  • Splat (furniture), an element of the chair
  • Asterisk (slang)
    • Splatbook in role-playing game, derived from *book
  • Splatting, volume rendering technique
  • Nickelodeon Splat!, a television block
    • NickSplat, a later television block also from Nickelodeon
  • Splat Pack, a collection of filmmakers
  • Texture splat, a computer graphics effect
  • Splatt, Cornwall, a small village in Cornwall
  • SPLAT-COSMETICA - Russian manufacturer of oral care products
  • "Splat!" (The Brak Show), a 2003 episode
  • Splat the Cat, a 2008 children's picture book by Rob Scotton

Software

  • SPLAT!, a terrestrial radio propagation model application

Games

  • Splat! (video game)
Examples of use of splat
1. Splat! goes a tub of turpentine, streaking the paint with thin lines and drizzles.
2. "Otherwise the air will suck you right under the wheels." The little finger–man slid under Valencia‘s right hand and collapsed on the table with a splat.
3. The plane had just made it over the main road leading to Terminal 4, and was inside the airport perimeter when it went, well, splat.
4. This is the moment Coronation Street psycho David Platt goes splat, after being hit by a car and sent flying into the gutter.
5. He looked through the windshield, scanning the water through a splat of osprey muck, at the wave runners, the sloops and the powerboats zipping by.