noun
splat
splat
noun
1
The sharp sound, or the resulting messy shape, made when something soft or wet hits a surface.
"The water balloon landed with a loud splat."
2
Computing: the asterisk symbol (*), especially when used to mean "any" or a variable list of arguments.
"The function uses a splat to accept any number of arguments."
verb
1
To hit a surface and flatten into a messy shape.
"The egg splatted onto the kitchen floor."
How to Use Splat
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe sound/mess of something soft hitting a surface, or (in coding) the asterisk symbol used for flexible argument lists.
Word Forms
splatted past tense, splats plural, splats plural, splats singular
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Etymology
From an earlier sense of splat meaning "to spread flat," related to Middle English splatten, "to stretch out or split."