SPLATS

noun

1. The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.

noun

1. The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
2. The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
3. The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.

verb

1. To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.
2. To splatter.
3. 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.