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- verb Present participle of
splat . - noun computer graphics A method for combining different
textures by applying analpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completelytransparent .
Etymologies
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Dutch farmer Jan Willem Horstmann, preparing to slaughter the entire line of sheep that he took so many years to breed, as foot-and-mouth disease continued to plague continental Europe "The ethics and legal implications of 'splatting' and 'sloshing' are expected to be hotly debated under the big top."
Perspectives 2007
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And then all the food caught up and came splatting right on me.
The Boy in the Sandwich Vincent Eaton 2012
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Think about like this: if you fed 200 dairy cows ex-lax while they were in their stalls in a barn, the sound of cowshit splatting on the floor would be deafening and continuous.
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But given the two frontrunnners have spent more than $20m on splatting each other with attack ads in Florida alone, you can see the size of the mountain Santorum has to climb.12.57pm: Why did Mitt Romeny choose The Villages, a sprawling luxury retirement village north of Tampa for his eve-of-poll rally last night?
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It's here again too, sounding like dough splatting on a countertop.
The Sound of Broken Bells Jim Fusilli 2010
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It's here again too, sounding like dough splatting on a countertop.
The Sound of Broken Bells Jim Fusilli 2010
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A decision involving the real death of a real creature, not the press-button splatting of some alien or "terrorist" on a computer screen.
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It's here again too, sounding like dough splatting on a countertop.
The Sound of Broken Bells Jim Fusilli 2010
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It keeps thumping against the turf and splatting against the backstop.
Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June Xan Brooks at Wimbledon 2010
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It's here again too, sounding like dough splatting on a countertop.
The Sound of Broken Bells Jim Fusilli 2010
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For example, PowerShell lets you format long, otherwise unreadable commands as hash tables so they're more readable. It's called "splatting."
AI is here. How is it changing the way developers work? 2024
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