glob
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)
- A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
- He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
- (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
- (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
See also
- Glob (programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)
- To stick in globs or lumps.
- (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
Anagrams
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
glob m inan
Declension
Declension of glob
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French globe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin globus.
Noun
glob n (plural globuri)
- globe (all senses)
Declension
Declension of glob
singular | plural | |||
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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
- a globe
Declension
Declension of glob | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | glob | globen | glober | globerna |
Genitive | globs | globens | globers | globernas |
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