splat

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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. [Rochester Institute of Technology] 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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