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.
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B =
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. It referred 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 assembler
mnemonic BLT almost always means
`Branch if Less Than zero'.