Definitions for blowup
ˈbloʊˌʌpblowup

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1. explosion, detonation, blowupnoun

   a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction

2. effusion, gush, outburst, blowup, ebullitionnoun

   an unrestrained expression of emotion

3. enlargement, blowup, magnificationnoun

   a photographic print that has been enlarged

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1. blowupnoun

   An explosion, or violent outburst

2. blowupnoun

   An enlargement

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1. Blowup

   Blow-up (sometimes styled as Blowup or Blow Up) is a 1966 mystery drama thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and produced by Carlo Ponti. It was Antonioni's first entirely English-language film, and stars David Hemmings alongside Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. Also featured is 1960s model Veruschka. The film's plot was inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story "Las babas del diablo" (1959).The story is set within the mod subculture of 1960s Swinging London, and follows a fashion photographer (Hemmings) who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film. The screenplay was by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, with English dialogue by British playwright Edward Bond. The cinematographer was Carlo di Palma. The film's non-diegetic music was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, while rock group the Yardbirds also feature. In the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival, Blowup won the Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honour. The American release of the counterculture-era film with its explicit sexual content was in direct defiance of Hollywood's Production Code. Its subsequent critical and box-office success influenced the abandonment of the code in 1968 in favour of the MPAA film rating system.Blowup would inspire subsequent films, including Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) and Brian De Palma's Blow Out (1981). In 2012, Blowup was ranked No. 144 in the Sight & Sound critics' poll of the world's greatest films.

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1. blowup

   Blowup refers to a type of mathematical operation that replaces a point in a mathematical space with an entire other space. It is a technique used in algebraic geometry. The term might also colloquially refer to a significant increase or amplification, a violent release of energy, a heated argument, or a physical enlargement of an image. The exact meaning depends on the context in which the term is used.

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1. Blowup

   Blowup, or Blow-Up, is a 1966 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he may have witnessed a murder and unwittingly taken photographs of the killing. It was Antonioni's first entirely English-language film. The film also stars Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Tsai Chin and Gillian Hills as well as sixties model Veruschka. The screenplay was written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, with English dialogue by British playwright Edward Bond. The film was produced by Carlo Ponti, who had contracted Antonioni to make three English-language films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The plot was inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story, "Las babas del diablo" or "The Devil's Drool", translated also as "Blow Up" in Blow-up and Other Stories, and by the life of Swinging London photographer David Bailey. The film was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, although the music is diegetic, as Hancock noted: "It's only there when someone turns on the radio or puts on a record." Nominated for several awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Blowup won the Grand Prix.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of blowup in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of blowup in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of blowup in a Sentence

1. Doug Guthrie:

   Since the blowup with Alibaba over the last year, it is clear that the Chinese government wants to send a very clear message to all tech companies operating in China, if Doug Guthrie want to operate safely and securely in China today, Doug Guthrie must be an ally of the Chinese government.

2. Elizabeth Warren:

   We need transparency and strong oversight to ensure that the next hedge fund blowup doesn't take the economy down with it.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=blowup
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Blowup
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowup
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=blowup
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=blowup