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What does splay mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word splay? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To display; to spread.
  2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
  3. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
  4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
  5. (computing theory, transitive) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
Adjective
  1. spread out; turned outward
  2. flat and ungainly
Noun
  1. A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
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