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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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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.