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splat

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  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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