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Bloat may refer to:
Biology and medicine
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- Bloat (Wild Cards), a character in the Wild Cards book series
- Bloat, a pufferfish and the character in the Finding Nemo franchise