Splat

4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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; "splat fish over an open
          fire"


       3: flatten on impact; "The snowballs splatted on the trees"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "splat":
     bang, beam, billet, board, boarding, bump, burst, bust, clap,
     clapboard, clash, cord, cordwood, crack, crash, crump, deal,
     driftwood, firewood, flap, flop, hardwood, knock, lath, lathing,
     lathwork, log, lumber, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, plank,
     planking, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, puncheon, rap, report,
     shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, sideboard,
     siding, slab, slam, slap, slat, smack, softwood, stave, stick,
     stick of wood, stovewood, swap, tap, three-by-four, thwack, timber,
     timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, weatherboard, whack, wham,
     whap, whomp, whop, wood
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 (27 SEP 03) [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)