simple past tense and past participle of splay

(architecture) Of a door or a window: bevelled so as to be larger on one side of the wall than on the other.

plural of splay

A shape or motion that splays.

present participle of splay

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.

To spread; spread out. / To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. / To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.

Spread out; turned outward. / Flat and ungainly.

plural of splaying

(computing theory) A self-balancing binary search tree with the additional property that recently accessed elements are quick to access again.