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What (who) is splay branch - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Splay (architecture); Splay (disambiguation); Splay (album)
splay
(splays, splaying, splayed)
If things splay or are splayed, their ends are spread out away from each other.
He splayed his fingers across his face...
His fingers splay out in a star shape...
He was on his stomach, his legs splayed apart.
VERB: V n, V adv/prep, V-ed
splay
¦ verb
1. spread or be spread out or further apart.
2. [usu. as adjective splayed] construct (a window, doorway, or other aperture) so that it is wider at one side of the wall than the other.
¦ noun
1. a tapered widening of a road at an intersection to increase visibility.
2. a surface making an oblique angle with another, especially a splayed window or other aperture.
¦ adjective [usu. in combination] turned outward or widened: the girl sat splay-legged.
Origin
ME (in the sense 'unfold to view'): shortening of display.
Splay
·vt To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
IV. Splay ·adj Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
V. Splay ·vt To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, ·etc.
VI. Splay ·adj A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
Wikipedia
Splay
Splay may refer to:
- Splay, a verb meaning slant, slope or spread outwards
- Splay (physiology), the difference between urine threshold and saturation
- Splay (Japanese band), a J-pop band from Osaka
- Splay Networks, a Sweden-headquartered group of multi-channel networks for Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Germany
- In architecture
- chamfer, a beveled edge connecting two surfaces
- talus (fortification), a sloping face at the base of a fortified wall
- Splay (plastics), off-colored streaking that occurs in injection molded plastics
- Splay tree, a type of search tree
- Splay fault, geology
- Splay leg, a condition in birds and poultry
- Splay (Shiner album), 1996
- Splay (Jim Black album), 2002
