A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance. / (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.

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

simple past tense and past participle of glob

plural of glob

present participle of glob

The process of becoming a more interconnected world. / The process of the world economy becoming dominated by capitalist models, according to the World System Theory.

Concerning all parts of the world. / (not comparable, computing) Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program. / Which has to be considered in its entirety. / Spherical, ball-shaped.

(computing) A globally scoped identifier.

In the global manner; world-wide.

(Australia) A light bulb. / A nearly evacuated glass globe containing ionized gas (plasma), which produces lightning-like patterns when touched.