splat
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/splæt/
English
Definitions
noun
- The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
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.”
- 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.”
- The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
- Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.
verb
- To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.“The egg splatted onto the floor.”
- To splatter.“She splatted the roach with her shoe.”
- 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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Synonyms
splashcoolingcrushslatbackspelksplintsplentsloatspurketspilingglastonbury chairspalesquabslicespeltspall