Blow up

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blow up

Usage: vi.
Derivation: Scientific computation
Synonym(s): blow out

blow up: vi.

[scientific computation] To become unstable. Suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will soon overflow or at least go nonlinear.
Syn. blow out.

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Source: blow up, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

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