glob
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/Ι‘lΙb/
English
Definitions
noun
- A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.βHe put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.β
- A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
- A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
verb
- To stick in globs or lumps.
- To carry out pattern matching using a glob.