Glob

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /É¡lÉ‘b/
• UK IPA: /É¡lÉ’b/

Origin

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.

Full definition of glob

Noun

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.

Verb

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

Anagrams

• blog