Source : WordNet®

splat
     v 1: give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
     2: split open and flatten for cooking; "splat fish over an open
        fire"
     3: flatten on impact; "The snowballs splatted on the trees"

splat
     n 1: a single splash; "he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
     2: a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

splat
     
        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. Name used by some {MIT} people for the "#" character (ASCII
        35).
     
        3. (Rochester Institute of Technology) The {feature key} on a
        Mac (same as {alt}).
     
        4. An obsolete 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. An obsolete name for the semi-mythical {Stanford} {extended
        ASCII} circle-plus character.
     
        See also {ASCII}.
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (1995-01-19)