glob

Etymology
Possibly a or a. An element of is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as, , ,  and. (Still,, clump and clod may be related via the root ; compare . )

In the programming sense, originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command ; short for.

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.

Noun

 * 1) A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
 * 2)  A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
 * 3)  A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
 * 1)  A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

Verb

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

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) planet, globe

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) globe (all senses)

Noun

 * 1) a globe

Related terms

 * = Stockholm Globe Arena
 * = Stockholm Globe Arena
 * = Stockholm Globe Arena