splat
/splæt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I didn't see the egg fall, but I heard the splat when it hit the floor."
- "So when it come to choices, I prefer the cricket bat. It doesn't mark the skin and gives a better sounding "splat"."
- "The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint."
- "It consists of three dots or periods preceding the last (or only) parameter in the function signature. The splat operator converts the values passed to the function into an array, which can then be used inside the function […]"
- "For example, "broadcast" (sometimes called "splat") makes a vector whose lanes are all the same scalar, like Rust's [42; N] array literal."
- "The egg splatted onto the floor."
Etymology
From earlier splat (“to spread flat”), from Middle English splatten, splaten (“to stretch out, extend", also "to split”). Compare dialectal English splat (“flat”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: splatten