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explode
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explode
(1) To break down an assembly into its component pieces. Contrast with implode.

(2) To decompress data back to its original form.


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For Nanette was the family's sole remaining exploder, the only one of her father's progeny to have inherited his propensity for not stinting when it came to the expression of rage.
In Into Danger: Risking Your Life For Work (Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 20), Kate talks to people whose jobs put them in daily peril - from stunt people to landmine exploders and even a "snake man" who has been bitten by poisonous snakes to find venom for vaccines.
The album is a spoken-word affair, with Edison reading from the book over hard-driving musical backdrops produced by blues exploder Jon Spencer -- an Edison crony who produced and guested on Rocket Train recordings.
 
 
 
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