blow up : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: blow up	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for blow up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blow up v cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb" Synonym(s): explode, detonate, blow up, set off make large; "blow up an image" Synonym(s): blow up, enlarge, magnify Antonym(s): reduce, scale down get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic" Synonym(s): flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic add details to Synonym(s): embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded" Synonym(s): detonate, explode, blow up exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" Synonym(s): inflate, blow up, expand, amplify fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons" Synonym(s): inflate, blow up Antonym(s): deflate to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests" Synonym(s): puff, puff up, blow up, puff out
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
blow up vi. 1. [scientific computation] To become unstable. Suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will soon overflow or at least go {nonlinear}. 2. Syn. {blow out}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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}]