Bloat Explained

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
• Bloat, a pufferfish and the character in the Finding Nemo franchise