Meaning of Splat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
2. The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
3. The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
4. The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
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5. Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.
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6. The asterisk *
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7. The hash symbol #
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8. An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....
9. An operator which takes a scalar value and creates a vector in which each element is initialized to that value.
10. A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
11. 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.

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Examples

“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".”

“The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint.”

“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 […]”

“For example, "broadcast" (sometimes called "splat") makes a vector whose lanes are all the same scalar, like Rust's [42; N] array literal.”

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