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 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)
Nearby terms:
SPL/1 « SPLash! « splash screen « splat »
SPL/I » SPLINTER » split
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