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blowback

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blowback [′blō‚bak]
(chemical engineering)
A continuous stream of liquid or gas bled through air lines from instruments and to the process line being monitored; prevents process fluid from backing up and contacting the instrument.
Reverse flow of fluid through a filter medium to remove caked solids. Also known as backwash.
(graphic arts)
To enlarge, or make an enlargement of, an image.
(mechanical engineering)


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He is, of course, a frontline warrior against terror--and he should know, since he was one of those who put the puff in blowback originally.
However, as explosive as Litvinenko's FSB/al-Qaeda charge is, it never caused Putin to suffer any political blowback because the Western press, in general, never bothered even to report it, let alone investigate it.
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR: Tom Hanks is the congressman whose covert efforts in Afghanistan led to what's known in the international calamity trade as blowback.
 
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