Množina: bubbles

ETYM Cf. Dutch bobbel, Dan. boble, Swed. bubbla. Related to Blob.
A hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide).
1. A small globule typically hollow and light: as a small body of gas within a liquid; a thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; a globule in a transparent solid; something (as a plastic or inflatable structure) that is hemispherical or semicylindrical.
2. Something that lacks firmness, solidity, or reality; A delusive scheme.
3. A sound like that of bubbling.
4. magnetic bubble.
5. A state of booming economic activity (as in a stock market) that often ends in a sudden collapse.
6. The condition of being at risk of exclusion or replacement (as from a tournament) — usually used in the phrase on the bubble.

To form produce, or emit bubbles, as of liquids or gases.

Množina: bubble and squeaks

(British) Leftover cabbage and potatoes and meat fried together.
A British dish consisting of usually leftover potatoes, greens (as cabbage), and sometimes meat fried together.

Množina: bubble baths

A bath in which one adds something to foam and scent the bath water.

Množina: bubble chambers

An instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles.
In physics, a device for observing the nature and movement of atomic particles, and their interaction with radiations. It is a vessel filled with a superheated liquid through which ionizing particles move and collide. The paths of these particles are shown by strings of bubbles, which can be photographed and studied. By using a pressurized liquid medium instead of a gas, it overcomes drawbacks inherent in the earlier cloud chamber. It was invented by US physicist Donald Glaser 1952. See particle detector.
A chamber of superheated liquid in which the path of an ionizing particle is made visible by a string of vapor bubbles.

Množina: bubble charts

A chart in which annotated ovals (bubbles) representing categories, operations, or procedures are connected by lines or arrows that represent data flows or other relationships among the items represented by bubbles. In systems analysis, bubble charts, rather than block diagrams or flowcharts, are used to describe the connections between concepts or parts of a whole, without emphasizing a structural, sequential, or procedural relationship between the parts. See the illustration. Compare block diagram, flowchart.

Množina: bubble dances

A solo dance similar to a fan dance except large balloons are used instead of fans.

Množina: bubble gums

A kind of chewing gum that can be blown into bubbles.
1. A chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles

Množina: bubble gum dermatitis

An allergic contact dermatitis developed around the lips of children who chew bubble gum.

Množina: bubble memories

Memory formed by a series of persistent magnetic “bubbles” in a thin film substrate. In contrast to ROM, information can be written to bubble memory. In contrast to RAM, data written to bubble memory remains there until it is changed, even when the computer is turned off. For this reason, bubble memory has had some application in environments in which a computer system must be able to recover with minimal data loss in the event of a power failure. The use of and demand for bubble memory has all but disappeared because of the introduction of flash memory, which is less expensive and easier to produce. See also flash memory, nonvolatile memory.
In computing, a memory device based on the creation of small “bubbles” on a magnetic surface. Bubble memories typically store up to 4 megabits (4 million bits) of information. They are not sensitive to shock and vibration, unlike other memory devices such as disc drives, yet, like magnetic discs, they are nonvolatile and do not lose their information when the computer is switched off.

To overflow with a certain feeling, such as anger or joy; SYN. overflow, spill over.

Množina: bubble shells

Marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell.

Množina: bubble sorts

A sorting algorithm that starts at the end of a list with n elements and moves all the way through, testing the value of each adjacent pair of items and swapping them if they aren’t in the right order. The entire process is then repeated for the remaining n – 1 items in the list, and so on, until the list is completely sorted, with the largest value at the end of the list. A bubble sort is so named because the “lightest” item in a list (the smallest) will figuratively “bubble up” to the top of the list first; then the next-lightest item bubbles up to its position, and so on. See the illustration. Also called: exchange sort. See also algorithm, sort. Compare insertion sort, merge sort, quicksort.
In computing, a technique for sorting data. Adjacent items are continually exchanged until the data are in sequence.

Množina: bubble storages

See bubble memory.

To move upwards in bubbles.