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What (who) is splat - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
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.