GLOB

ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk

(noun) a compact mass; “a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

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

glob (plural globs)

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.

(biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

Verb

glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)

To stick in globs or lumps.

(programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

Anagrams

• Blog, blog

Source: Wiktionary