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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" rel="nofollow">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)
       
       

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" rel="nofollow">ASCII circle-plus character. See also {ASCII.
  
  

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 English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  splat
     n.
     The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
     n.
     1 The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid
  surface.
     2 The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit
  a solid surface.
     3 (lb en computing slang) The ''Command_key'' key on an (w: Apple
  Macintosh).
     4 (lb en computing slang) Any of various characters appearing in
  computer character sets.
     5 # The asterisk <code>*</code>
     6 # The hash symbol <code>#</code>
     7 A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned
  vertically against a solid object in the water.
     8 A 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.
     vb.
     1 (lb en intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an
  irregular shape.
     2 (lb en transitive) To splatter.
     3 (lb en 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.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  splat
     n.
     The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
     n.
     1 The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid
  surface.
     2 The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit
  a solid surface.
     3 (lb en computing slang) The ''Command_key'' key on an (w: Apple
  Macintosh).
     4 (lb en computing slang) Any of various characters appearing in
  computer character sets.
     5 # The asterisk <code>*</code>
     6 # The hash symbol <code>#</code>
     7 A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned
  vertically against a solid object in the water.
     8 A 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.
     vb.
     1 (lb en intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an
  irregular shape.
     2 (lb en transitive) To splatter.
     3 (lb en 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.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  splat
     n.
     The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
     n.
     1 The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid
  surface.
     2 The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit
  a solid surface.
     3 (lb en computing slang) The ''Command_key'' key on an (w: Apple
  Macintosh).
     4 (lb en computing slang) Any of various characters appearing in
  computer character sets.
     5 # The asterisk <code>*</code>
     6 # The hash symbol <code>#</code>
     7 A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned
  vertically against a solid object in the water.
     8 A 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.
     vb.
     1 (lb en intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an
  irregular shape.
     2 (lb en transitive) To splatter.
     3 (lb en 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.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  splat
     n.
     The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
     n.
     1 The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid
  surface.
     2 The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit
  a solid surface.
     3 (lb en computing slang) The ''Command_key'' key on an (w: Apple
  Macintosh).
     4 (lb en computing slang) Any of various characters appearing in
  computer character sets.
     5 # The asterisk <code>*</code>
     6 # The hash symbol <code>#</code>
     7 A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned
  vertically against a solid object in the water.
     8 A 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.
     vb.
     1 (lb en intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an
  irregular shape.
     2 (lb en transitive) To splatter.
     3 (lb en 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.

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Splat /splˈat/
  الضّجّة

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  splat /splˈat/
  plác

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  splat /splˈat/ 
  rozplácnutí

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  splat /splˈat/
  loccsanás

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈspɫæt/

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

  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 Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 椅背中间纵立的长条木板;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 椅背中间纵立的长条木板

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