See splat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Computer graphics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2003, Thomas Ertl, Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2003: Proceedings, page 491:",
"text": "Figure 6: Checkerboard rendering using two different screen space surface splatting algorithms.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"computer graphics",
"computer graphics"
],
[
"texture",
"texture"
],
[
"alpha channel",
"alpha channel"
],
[
"map",
"map"
],
[
"transparent",
"transparent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computer graphics, transitive) 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."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"computer-graphics",
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/splæt/"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-splat.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/86/En-au-splat.ogg/En-au-splat.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/En-au-splat.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æt"
}
],
"word": "splat"
}
Download raw JSONL data for splat meaning in English (8.5kB)
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"called_from": "page/1412",
"msg": "gloss may contain unhandled list items: The hash symbol #",
"path": [
"splat"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "splat",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "page/1412",
"msg": "gloss may contain unhandled list items: An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....",
"path": [
"splat"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "splat",
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}
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