Glob Definition
glŏb
globs
noun
globs
A small drop; a globule.
American Heritage
A somewhat rounded mass or lump, as of jelly or grease.
Webster's New World
(programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
Wiktionary
(biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
Wiktionary
verb
To stick in globs or lumps.
Wiktionary
(programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
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Other Word Forms of Glob
Noun
Singular:
glob
Plural:
globsOrigin of Glob
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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.
From Wiktionary
Middle English globbe large mass from Latin globus globular mass
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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