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4 definitions for splat From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
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 :
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) :
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) :
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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