splat

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.

So when it come to choices, I prefer the cricket bat. It doesn't mark the skin and gives a better sounding "splat".

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.

Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.

Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.

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.

Figure 6: Checkerboard rendering using two different screen space surface splatting algorithms.