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block transfer computations n. [from the television series "Dr.
Who"] Computations so fiendishly subtle and complex that they could not be performed by machines....
Bloggs Family n. An imaginary family consisting of Fred and Mary Bloggs and their children.
blow an EPROM /bloh *n ee'prom/ v. (alt. `blast an EPROM', `burn an EPROM') To program a read-only memory, e.
g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming p...
blow away vt. To remove (files and directories) from permanent storage, generally by accident.
He reformatted the wrong partition and blew away last night's netnews." Oppose nuke....
blow out vi. [prob. from mining and tunneling jargon] Of software, to fail spectacularly
almost as serious as crash and burn. See...
blow past vt. To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer.
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....
BLT /B-L-T/, /bl*t/ or (rarely) /belt/ n.,vt. Synonym for blit.
This is the original form of blit and the ancestor of bitblt....
Blue Book n. 1.
blue box n. 1. obs.
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