Bloat

Bloat may refer to:

Biology and medicine

  • Bloat (canine) (gastric dilatation volvulus), an overstretched and rotated stomach in dogs
  • Bloat (ruminant) (ruminal tympany), an excessive volume of gas in ruminants
  • Bloating, an abnormal swelling or enlargement of the abdomen
  • Gas bloat syndrome, a complication of Nissen fundoplication surgery

Computing

  • Code bloat, computer code that is unnecessarily long, slow, or wasteful of resources
  • Software bloat, uncontrolled and damaging growth of a software system through successive versions

Other uses

  • Bloat (Wild Cards), a character in the Wild Cards book series
  • A character from the Finding Nemo franchise
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gollark: I have mathematical constants as a service up and was going to upload a few MB of tau.
gollark: Great, osmarks.tk is down.
gollark: It took ages to type.
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