splat.
The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
Meaning & usage
The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
Where this word comes from
From earlier splat (“to spread flat”), from Middle English splatten, splaten (“to stretch out, extend", also "to split”). Compare dialectal English splat (“flat”).
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. The asterisk *
Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets. The hash symbol #
An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....
An operator which takes a scalar value and creates a vector in which each element is initialized to that value.
A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
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.
Ellipsis of Gaussian splat
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeic.
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.
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeic.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.