SPLATS

The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.

The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.

"I didn't see the egg fall, but I heard the splat when it hit the floor."

The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.

"The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint."

The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.

To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.

"The egg splatted onto the floor."

To splatter.

"She splatted the roach with her shoe."

To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.