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From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
splat
n 1: a single splash; "he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
2: a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
v 1: give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
2: split open and flatten for cooking, as of fish over an open
fire
3: flatten on impact; "The snowballs splatted on the trees"
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
splat n. 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. [MIT] Name used by some people for the `#' character (ASCII 0100011).
3. The {feature key} on a Mac (same as {alt}, sense 2). 4. obs. 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. obs. Name for the semi-mythical Stanford extended ASCII circle-plus
character. See also {{ASCII}}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
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)
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