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 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. obs. Name for the semi-mythical Stanford extended ASCII
circle-plus character. See also ASCII.
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