Blowout
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Science and technology

  • Blowout (well drilling)
    Blowout (well drilling)
    A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed....

    , a sudden release of oil and gas from a well
  • Blowout (geology)
    Blowout (geology)
    Blowouts are sandy depressions in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.Blowouts occur in partially vegetated dunefields or sandhills. A blowout forms when a patch of protective vegetation is lost, allowing strong winds to "blow out" sand and form a depression...

    , a sandy depression caused by the removal of sediment by wind
  • Blowout grass
    Blowout grass
    Blowout grass, Redfieldia flexuosa, is a grass that can be found on sand dunes. The plants grow in small clusters, protecting each other from the harsh desert conditions.-Range:...

     (Redfieldia flexuosa) is a grass that can be found on sand dunes
  • Blowout (medicine), such as a blowout fracture
    Blowout fracture
    A blowout fracture is a fracture of the walls or floor of the orbit. Intraorbital material may be pushed out into one of the paranasal sinuses. This is most commonly caused by blunt trauma of the head, generally personal altercations...

     or a caecal blowout
  • Blowout (tire)
    Blowout (tire)
    A blowout is a rapid loss of inflation pressure of a pneumatic tire leading to an explosion. The primary cause for this is encountering an object that cuts or tears the structural components of the tire to the point where the structure is incapable of containing the pressurized air, with the...

    , a sudden loss of tire pressure.

Media

  • Blow Out
    Blow Out
    Blow Out is a 1981 thriller film, written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a movie sound effects technician from Philadelphia who, while recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film, serendipitously captures audio evidence of an assassination involving a...

    , a 1981 film directed by Brian De Palma
  • Blow Out (TV series)
    Blow Out (TV series)
    Blow Out was a reality television series that first premiered on the Bravo cable television network in 2004, with a second season broadcasting in 2005. The first season revolved around the construction and launch of Jonathan Salon in Beverly Hills, an upscale Los Angeles hair salon...

    , a television show on Bravo network
  • "Blow Out", a song from Radiohead's Pablo Honey
    Pablo Honey
    Pablo Honey is the debut studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released in February 1993. The album was produced by Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie and was recorded at Chipping Norton Studio and Courtyard Studio, Oxfordshire from September to November 1992...

  • "Blowout", a 2001 song from The Crystal Method's Tweekend
    Tweekend
    Tweekend is the second album by American duo The Crystal Method, released in 2001. The album featured the hit lead single "Name of the Game", which has been featured in many films, television shows and commercials. The other two singles from the album were "Murder" and "Wild, Sweet and Cool"...

  • BlowOut
    BlowOut
    BlowOut is a 2004 side-scrolling action video game developed by Terminal Reality and published by Majesco, released for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC. It is a run-and-gun shoot-em-up in the tradition of games such as Contra and Metal Slug, with a power-up-based exploration structure...

    , a 2004 run and gun video game.
  • An episode of Mayday (or Air Crash Investigation for non-Canadian viewers), regarding British Airways Flight 5390
    British Airways Flight 5390
    British Airways Flight 5390 was a British Airways flight between Birmingham Airport in England and Málaga, Spain. On 10 June 1990 an improperly installed panel of the windscreen failed, blowing the plane's captain, Tim Lancaster, halfway out of the aircraft, with his body firmly pressed against the...

    .

Other

  • Blowout (hairstyle)
  • Blowout (sports)
    Blowout (sports)
    A blowout is an easy or one-sided victory. It occurs when one athletic team or individual performer outscores another by a large margin or in such a fashion that allows the second team or individual little chance of a victory from a point early in a competition, game, contest or event...

    , an easy or one-sided victory, especially after a clear, early lead
  • blown out highlights in a photograph, also called clipping (photography)
    Clipping (photography)
    In digital photography and digital video, clipping is a result of capturing or processing an image where the intensity in a certain area falls outside the minimum and maximum intensity which can be represented. It is an instance of signal clipping in the image domain...

  • Blowout, a common effect (or side-effect) when tattoo
    Tattoo
    A tattoo is made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. Tattoos on humans are a type of body modification, and tattoos on other animals are most commonly used for identification purposes...

     ink is injected so deeply into the skin that the ink spreads through capillaries, creating a blur or halo around the tattoo.
  • Blow-out, another name for a party horn
    Party horn
    A party horn, also known as a blow-out, blower, noisemaker or a squeaker, is a horn formed from a paper tube, often one that is flattened and rolled into a coil, and which unrolls when blown into, producing a horn-like noise. Modern variations have a plastic mouthpiece, which prevents the swift...

  • Blowout (a district), in Sweden there is a district called Blowout (Blåsut). The notorious Blowout Sky Bar is located there.
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