glob

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English

Etymology

In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour.

Pronunciation

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Noun

glob (plural globs)

  1. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
    He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
  2. (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
  3. (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

See also

Verb

glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)

  1. To stick in globs or lumps.
  2. (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

Anagrams

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

glob m inan

  1. globe

Declension

Declension of glob
singular plural
nominative glob globy
genitive globu globów
dative globowi globom
accusative glob globy
instrumental globem globami
locative globie globach
vocative globie globy

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French globe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin globus.

Noun

glob n (plural globuri)

  1. globe (all senses)

Declension

Declension of glob
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) glob globul (niște) globuri globurile
genitive/dative (unui) glob globului (unor) globuri globurilor
vocative globule globurilor

Swedish

Noun

glob c

  1. a globe

Declension

Declension of glob 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative glob globen glober globerna
Genitive globs globens globers globernas
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