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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>splat</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="splash-screen.html" title="splash screen"/><link rel="next" href="splat-out.html" title="splat out"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">splat</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="splash-screen.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="splat-out.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="splat"/><dt xmlns="" id="splat"><b>splat</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk
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(<tt class="literal">*</tt>) character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive from the
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‘squashed-bug’ appearance of the asterisk on many early line
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printers. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [MIT] Name used by some people for the <tt class="literal">#</tt>
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character (ASCII 0100011). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. The <a href="../F/feature-key.html"><i class="glossterm">feature key</i></a> on a Mac (same as
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<a href="../A/alt.html"><i class="glossterm">alt</i></a>, sense 2). </p></dd><dd><p> 4. obs. Name used by some people for the Stanford/ITS extended ASCII
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⊗ character. This character is also called <span class="firstterm">blobby</span> and <span class="firstterm">frob</span>, among other names; it is sometimes used
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by mathematicians as a notation for <span class="firstterm">tensor
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product</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 5. obs. Name for the semi-mythical Stanford extended ASCII ⊕
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character. See also <a href="../A/ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="splash-screen.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="splat-out.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">splash screen </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> splat out</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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