blow up
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Verb (8)
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy“We exploded the nuclear bomb”Synonyms: explodedetonateset offMore general change integrityMore specific dynamite, fulminateCauses detonate, explode
- make large“blow up an image”Synonyms: enlargemagnifyOpposite reduceMore general increase
- get very angry and fly into a rage“The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question”“Spam makes me go ballistic”Synonyms: flip one's lidthrow a fithit the roofhit the ceilinghave kittenshave a fitcombustblow one's stackfly off the handleflip one's wiglose one's temperblow a fusego ballisticMore general rage
- add details toSynonyms: embroiderpadlardembellishaggrandizeaggrandisedramatizedramatiseMore general overstate, exaggerateMore specific glorify
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction“the bomb detonated at noon”“The Molotov cocktail exploded”Synonyms: detonateexplodeMore general explode, burst
- exaggerate or make bigger“The charges were inflated”Synonyms: inflateexpandamplifyMore general increaseMore specific puff up
- fill with gas or air“inflate a balloon”Synonyms: inflate
- to swell or cause to enlarge“Her faced puffed up from the drugs”“puffed out chests”Synonyms: puffpuff uppuff out
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.<mathematics> A description of a function that, as its input changes over a finite interval, its output goes from stable (steadily increasing or decreasing) to unstable (oscilating wildly between extreme values). The term might also be used for successive elements in a discrete sequence or stepwise approximation of a continuous function. Rather than becoming unstable, the value may simply tend to positive or negative infinity.
When calculating such a function or sequence, a computer will typically suffer overflow.
2.blow out. [Jargon File]
(2019-12-27)
The Jargon File
1.[scientific computation] To become unstable. Suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will soon overflow or at least go nonlinear.
2.Syn. blow out.