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.

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Synonyms:
verb
To stick in globs or lumps.
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(programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
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Other Word Forms of Glob

Noun

Singular:
glob
Plural:
globs

Origin of Glob

  • 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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