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blow

To write code or data into a PROM chip by blowing the fuses of the 0 bits. The 1 bits are left alone.


blow Archaic
Metallurgy
a. a stage in the Bessemer process in which air is blasted upwards through molten pig iron
b. the quantity of metal treated in a Bessemer converter


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``By making this kind of action a federal crime, Congress today has struck a blow for the rule of law and justice,'' MPAA President Dan Glickman said in a statement.
I only bring it up now to talk about Vanessa Redgrave, who, alas, was not at the glitter events (evidently she was appearing in a play in London) but who has struck a blow for lesbian elders as defiant as any Palestinian solidarity of days gone by.
District Judge David Doty struck a blow for dairy sanity by declaring aspects of the price control system "arbitrary and capricious.
 
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