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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
Kevin J. Anderson

Meaning of "blowing up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BLOWING UP

blowing up  [ˈbləʊɪŋ ʌp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLOWING UP

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determiner
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Blowing up is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BLOWING UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Blowing up

In mathematics, blowing up or blowup is a type of geometric transformation which replaces a subspace of a given space with all the directions pointing out of that subspace. For example, the blowup of a point in a plane replaces the point with the projectivized tangent space at that point. The metaphor is that of zooming in on a photograph to enlarge part of the picture, rather than referring to an explosion. Blowups are the most fundamental transformation in birational geometry, because every birational morphism between projective varieties is a blowup. The weak factorization theorem says that every birational map can be factored as a composition of particularly simple blowups. The Cremona group, the group of birational automorphisms of the plane, is generated by blowups. Besides their importance in describing birational transformations, blowups are also an important way of constructing new spaces. For instance, most procedures for resolution of singularities proceed by blowing up singularities until they become smooth. A consequence of this is that blowups can be used to resolve the singularities of birational maps.

Definition of blowing up in the English dictionary

The definition of blowing up in the dictionary is a reprimand.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BLOWING UP


lace-up
leɪs ʌp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLOWING UP

blowfish
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blowlamp
blown
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WORDS THAT END LIKE BLOWING UP

bang up
big up
bring up
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flag up
gang up
give someone a leg up
hang up
hung up
leg up
mug up
rig up
ring up
rug up
strung up
tapping up

Synonyms and antonyms of blowing up in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «blowing up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLOWING UP

Find out the translation of blowing up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of blowing up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «blowing up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

吹起来
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

voladura
570 millions of speakers

English

blowing up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उड़ाने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفجير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

взорвав
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

explodindo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফুঁ আপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sauter
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

semakin mengembang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sprengung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

爆破
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

폭파
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyedhot munggah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thổi lên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உப்புகிறது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शिट्टी वाजवणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

patlamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

saltare in aria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wysadzenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підірвавши
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

suflare în sus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανατίναξη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

blaas
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

blåsa upp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blåser opp
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about blowing up

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10 QUOTES WITH «BLOWING UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word blowing up.
1
Henry Adams
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
2
Muhammad Ali
Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.
3
Kevin J. Anderson
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
4
Abdallah II of Jordan
Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
5
Gary Busey
My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
6
Vanessa Carlton
I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
7
Dick Dale
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
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Lukas Haas
This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.
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Brian Helgeland
You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.
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McKayla Maroney
I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLOWING UP»

Discover the use of blowing up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blowing up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Blowing Up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional ...
This edited volume seeks to redress the lack of scholarly work that takes promotion seriously as a form of social, cultural, political, and economic exchange.
Melissa Aronczyk, Devon Powers, 2010
2
Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror ...
In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the Russian secret service has been hatching a plot to return to the terror that was the hallmark of the KGB.
Юрий Фельштинский, Alexander Litvinenko, 2007
3
Specialization Training: Blowing Up Individual Body Parts
The potential is truly staggering. There are a number of other ways to specialize on your body as well. All of these types of Specialization and more are covered in this book.
Nick Nilsson, 2012
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Equimultiplicity and Blowing Up: An Algebraic Study
The book is primarily addressed to specialists in the subject but the self-contained and unified presentation of numerous earlier results make it accessible to graduate students with basic knowledge in commutative algebra.
Manfred Herrmann, Shin Ikeda, Ulrich Orbanz, 2011
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Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror ...
The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror (Large Print 16pt) Alexander Litvinenko . on to the edge of the road, where it lay for several more hours unnoticed by passing pedestrians. On September 22, an explosive device was discovered in the ...
Alexander Litvinenko, 2011
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Blowing Up of Non-commutative Smooth Surfaces
cd rpv — 1. Now applying Proposition 3.8.13 to (6.19) implies 2.. 3. and 4. D REMARK 6.2.3. The inequality in 6.2.2.4 is of course an equality. However we won't need this. 6.3. Definition of blowing up We define Y — Proj XV, X = Proj D and we ...
M. van den Bergh, 2001
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Symmetry Breaking for Compact Lie Groups
Blowing-up. In the sequel, we shall need to relate polar blowing-up to (pro- jective) blowing-up and exploit the rational algebraic character of (projective) blowing-up. In future, we always use the term "blowing-up", as opposed to "polar  ...
Mike Field
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Resolution of Curve and Surface Singularities in ...
Introduction: In the first section we resolve the singularities of a curve by a finite number of blowing up points. Furthermore, we consider a curve C embedded in a regular surface X, and we show: by a finite sequence of blowing up points we get  ...
K. Kiyek, José Luis Vicente Córdoba, 2004
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Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River
Grant Stevens, a mid-level manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, only wanted to build dams.
Gary Hansen, 2007
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Algebraic Geometry: Sundance 1988 : Proceedings of a ...
7 the latter is obtained by the 9-time consecutive blowing up at the flex of a cuspidal plane cubic curve C . If n > 10, then X is; by Lemma II. 2, Theorem I.I, and Propositions II. 5, and II. 6, and Corollary II. 7, a blowing up of a surface Y which is ...
Brian Harbourne, Robert Speiser, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLOWING UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blowing up is used in the context of the following news items.
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Videos: Illegal Fireworks Blowing Up All Over The Mission
As is traditional, Saturday night (and Sunday) was ablaze with illegal rooftop and middle-of-the-street fireworks displays, particularly in the ... «SFist, Jul 15»
2
Man dies after blowing up firework on head
Twenty-two-year-old Devon Staples died on the 4th of July after friends watched him put a firework on top of his head and blow it up. “He was ... «HLNtv.com, Jul 15»
3
Fireworks safety video goes to extremes by blowing up mannequins
The video, deemed by viewers as a "novel" approach to getting its message out, shows them going to extreme lengths by blowing up shop dolls ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
Phones 'blowing up' as Battle at Bristol priority ticket sales start
“The phones have been blowing up, and ticket orders have been very brisk,” BMS director of communications Dana Landry said Thursday. «Bristol Herald Courier, Jul 15»
5
Doom id Software interview – 'They just love blowing up barrels!'
GameCentral speaks to the executive producer of the new Doom reboot, about why it's the game fans have been waiting over 20 years for. «Metro, Jul 15»
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'Terminator Genisys' travels time, blowing up past and future
NEW YORK (CNS) — Any movie plot that hangs on the ability of an adult character to journey into the past to give vital advice to himself as a ... «CatholicPhilly.com, Jul 15»
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Officials demonstrate the hazards of fireworks
The San Antonio Fire Department tried to demonstrate the dangers of fireworks by blowing up fruit and a chicken on Thursday July 2, 2015. «San Antonio Express-News, Jul 15»
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VIDEO: That Domino's commercial with the sign blowing up? It was …
In a Domino's commercial now airing nationwide, Fue Xiong can be seen hitting a detonator that initiates a self-destruct sequence on the sign ... «OCRegister, Jul 15»
9
CLG is Blowing Up (in a Bad Way)
With losses to both Team SoloMid and Team Liquid last week, CLG slid from first place into a three-way tie for second. In what has become ... «Red Bull, Jul 15»
10
My Advice To Christians on the LGBT Issue is Blowing up on …
This previous weekend, I posted a controversial status on Facebook asking my fellow Christians to show grace in the face of last week's ... «RYOT, Jul 15»

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