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blow up
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blow up

Same as crash, bomb or abend.

blow up [′blō ‚əp]
(computer science)
abend
1.blow up - Of a scientific computation: to become unstable. It suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will soon overflow or at least go nonlinear.
2.blow up - blow out.


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