(computing) Being or relating to a form of I/O by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream, or reads data from a stream into multiple buffers.

Synonym of shotgun

plural of scatter-gun

plural of scatter gun

plural of scatter plot

(chiefly Britain) Any of a series of showers of rain, whose number, location and timing are impossible to predict

plural of scattered shower

(astronomy) Any trans-Neptunian object whose orbit is wholly within the scattered disc.

plural of scattered disc object

in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering.