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bomb

In volcanology, any unconsolidated volcanic material that has a diameter greater than 1.25 in. (32 mm). Bombs form from clots of wholly or partly liquid lava ejected during a volcanic explosion; they solidify and become rounded during flight. The final shape is determined by the initial size, viscosity, and flight velocity of the magma.

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bomb

See logic bomb and abend.

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bomb

1. the bomb

a. a hydrogen or atomic bomb considered as the ultimate destructive weapon

b. Slang something excellent

2. a round or pear-shaped mass of volcanic rock, solidified from molten lava that has been thrown into the air

3. Med a container for radioactive material, applied therapeutically to any part of the body

4. American football a very long high pass

5. (in rugby union) another term for up-and-under
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bomb [bäm]

(computer science)

abend

(geology)

Any large (greater than 64 millimeters) pyroclast ejected while viscous.

(ordnance)

An explosive or other lethal agent, together with its container or holder, which is planted or thrown by hand, dropped from an aircraft, or projected by some other slow-speed device (such as a mortar) and used to destroy, damage, injure, or kill.

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1.	(software)	bomb - General synonym for crash except that it is not used as a noun. Especially used of software or OS failures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb".
2.	(operating system)	bomb - Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents of a Unix "panic" or Amiga guru, in which icons of little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has died. On the Macintosh, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to the Amiga guru meditation number. MS-DOS computers tend to lock up in this situation.
3.	(software)	bomb - A piece of code embedded in a program that remains dormant until it is triggered. Logic bombs are triggered by an event whereas time bombs are triggered either after a set amount of time has elapsed, or when a specific date is reached.