GLOB

Glob



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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. 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.

Verb

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


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