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1.NounThe narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
2.NounThe sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface."I didn't see the egg fall, but I heard the splat when it hit the floor."
3.NounThe irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface."The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint."
4.NounThe Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
5.NounAny of various characters appearing in computer character sets.
The asterisk *
The hash symbol #
6.NounThe asterisk *
7.NounThe hash symbol #
8.NounAn operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....
9.NounAn operator which takes a scalar value and creates a vector in which each element is initialized to that value.
10.NounA move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
11.NounA children's game in which one person, in the centre of a circle of players, points and says "SPLAT!" at another player. That player then ducks down and the two players either side of them point and say "SPLAT!". The slowest to react is and eliminated from the game. The final is settled by a Mexican standoff.
12.VerbTo hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape."The egg splatted onto the floor."
13.VerbTo splatter."She splatted the roach with her shoe."
14.VerbTo combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.