splat

/splæt/ noun, verb

Forms splats splatting splatted

1. noun The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
2. noun The 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. noun The 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. noun (computing, slang) The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
5. noun The asterisk *
6. noun The hash symbol #
7. noun (programming) An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....
8. noun (programming) An operator which takes a scalar value and creates a vector in which each element is initialized to that value.
9. noun A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
10. verb (intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape. “The egg splatted onto the floor.”
11. verb (transitive) To splatter. “She splatted the roach with her shoe.”
12. verb (computer graphics, transitive) To 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.

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