meaning of blow up

1. blow up 1. 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 out. [Jargon File] BLOX A visual language. BLT 1. /B-L-T/, /bl*t/ or rarely /belt/ Synonym for blit. This is the original form of blit and the ancestor of bitblt. It refers to any large bit-field copy or move operation one resource-intensive memory-shuffling operation done on pre-paged versions of ITS, WAITS and TOPS-10 was sardonically referred to as "The Big BLT". The jargon usage has outlasted the PDP-10 BLock Transfer instruction from which BLT derives; nowadays, the assembly language mnemonic BLT almost always means "Branch if Less Than zero". 2. bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. [Jargon File] Blue A language proposed by Softech to meet the DoD Ironman requirements which led to Ada. ["On the BLUE Language Submitted to the DoD", E. W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices 1310:10-15 Oct 1978]. Blue Book 1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on the page-layout and graphics-control language PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Green Book, the Red Book, and the White Book. ["PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook", Adobe Systems, Addison-Wesley 1985, ISBN 0-201-10179-3]. 2. Informal name for one of the three standard references on Smalltalk. This book also has green and red siblings. ["Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation", David Robson, Addison-Wesley 1983, ISBN 0-201-11371-63]. 3. Any of the 1988 standards issued by the ITU-Ts ninth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the X. 400 electronic mail specification and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. See also book titles. [Jargon File]
2. make large; "blow up an ">image"

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