GLOB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glob mean? 

• GLOB (noun)
  The noun GLOB has 1 sense:

1. a compact mass

  Familiarity information: GLOB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A compact mass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ball; chunk; clod; clump; glob; lump

Context example:

a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder

Hypernyms ("glob" is a kind of...):

agglomeration (a jumbled collection or mass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glob"):

clot; coagulum (a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid)

gob (a lump of slimy stuff)

clew (a ball of yarn or cord or thread)

 Context examples 

But they can also create opportunities for escape, like the giant globs cut loose from Saturn and Jupiter when magnetic field lines become tangled.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)

The scientists 3D printed the bioreactor out of silicon and filled it with hydrogel — a sticky glob of polymers.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Jupiter and Saturn eject globs of their electrically-charged air.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)