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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
⊗ 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 ⊕
character. See also ASCII.
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