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.  [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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {ASCII}{feature key}{Nathan Hale}{splat out}]