glob UK /ɡlɒb/US /ɡlɑb/noun 3verb 2forms 3 noun3 •A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting. •A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern. •A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway. verb2 •To stick in globs or lumps.[…] paint globbed on the canvas, marring the careful shadowing he'd created on the snowbank. It was an amateurish mistake, completely unworthy of an artist of Teddy's skill. — 2024 •To carry out pattern matching using a glob.In filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all. — 2000 formsglobbed · globbing · globs
