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splat
A strip which covers the joints between adjacent sheets of building board.
1.splat - 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.splat - Name used by some MIT people for the "#" character (ASCII 35).
3.splat - (Rochester Institute of Technology) The feature key on a Mac (same as alt).
4.splat - 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.splat - An obsolete name for the semi-mythical Stanford extended ASCII circle-plus character.

See also ASCII.
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The second half saw the arrival of "Bogglevision" and a chance to experience a firestorm and rat splatting in 3-D.
THEATRE Horrible Histories/ Floral Pavilion, New Brighton by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Jonny, we have a special prize for anyone who eats the calabria like you have," he said, before taking aim and splatting a freshly-made margarita straight into my face.
MAMMA MIA! TUCKING IN TO 'WORLD'S HOTTEST PIZZA' by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
The splatting session took place outside the Civic Hall, in High Street, and the exercise raised pounds 50 to help the Special Care Baby Unit and Palliative Care Unit at George Eliot Hospital.
Mayor enjoys custard treat by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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