splat
/splæt/
splat noun: the narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back. Also the ellipsis of Gaussian splat.
Noun (1)
splat (plural splats)
- The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
- Synonyms:
- backsplat
Noun (2)
splat (plural splats)
- 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.
- So when it come to choices, I prefer the cricket bat.
It doesn't mark the skin and gives a better sounding "splat".1994, Mike Hayes, Tell Us Anothree! More yarns from all around Australia, Sydney: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, published 2001, page 32
- 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.
- The asterisk *
- The hash symbol #
- An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....
- It consists of three dots or periods preceding the last (or only) parameter in the function signature. The splat operator converts the values passed to the function into an array, which can then be used inside the function […]2019, David Powers, PHP 7 Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, page 64
- An operator which takes a scalar value and creates a vector in which each element is initialized to that value.
- For example, "broadcast" (sometimes called "splat") makes a vector whose lanes are all the same scalar, like Rust's [42; N] array literal.[2023 November 27, Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch, “Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch”, in mcyoung, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2025
- 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.
Verb
splat (third-person singular simple present splats, present participle splatting, simple past and past participle splatted)
- 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.
- Figure 6: Checkerboard rendering using two different screen space surface splatting algorithms.2003, Thomas Ertl, Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2003: Proceedings, page 491
Also used as
splat is also the ellipsis of Gaussian splat.
Synonyms of splat
Forms of splat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | splats |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | splats |
| present participle | splatting |
| past participle | splatted |
| past | splatted |
Origin of splat
From earlier splat (“to spread flat”), from Middle English splatten, splaten (“to stretch out, extend", also "to split”). Compare dialectal English splat (“flat”).
Onomatopoeic.
Words formed from splat
Phrases with splat
Words that rhyme with splat
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- slat
- blat
- matt
- matte
- nat
- pat
- sat
- scat
- sprat
- vat
- old hat
- phat
- plat
- prat
- rabat
- spat
- tat
- @
- acrobat
- anticat
- antifat
- antirat
- batt
- big cat
- Cheshire cat
- clat
- combat
- gat
- glatt
- gnat
- manat
- Montserrat
- plait
- scrat
- skat
- stat
- the fact that
- twat
- whereat
- begat
- Bratt
- BTO flat
- chowkat
- dassie rat
- dat
- despotat
- drat
- Flatt
Questions about splat
- What does splat mean?
- Splat means the narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
- What part of speech is splat?
- Splat can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce splat?
- Splat is pronounced /splæt/.
- What is the plural of splat?
- The plural of splat is splats.
Words near splat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: splat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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