Splat

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splat

Usage: n. Etymology: MIT Derivation: MIT See Also: ASCII

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 (×) 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 (+) character. See also ASCII.

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