global
nounEtymology From globe + -al; compare French global.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A globally scoped identifier.
- Antonyms
- local
global
adjUK /ˈɡləʊ.bəl/ · US /ˈɡloʊ.bəl/
Etymology From globe + -al; compare French global.
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Concerning all parts of the world.
- Pollution is a global problem.
- World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror are global conflicts.
2 more examples
- Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily.2003, Catherine Dupré, Importing the law in post-communist transitions, page 169:
- It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation isn't just about profits. It's about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2021, page 19:
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Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal
- The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator.2013 December 30, Matthew Katze, Don Crawford, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud, →ISBN, page 366:
› Pertaining to the whole of something; total…
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.
- Global variables keep support engineers employed.
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Which has to be considered in its entirety.
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Spherical, ball-shaped.
- In the center was a small, global mass.
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Of or relating to a globe or sphere.
- Synonyms
- world-wide, planetary, ball-shaped, globular, round, spherical
- Derived terms
66 terms
antiglobal, antiglobalist, circumglobal, global affair, global affairs, global boiling, global city, global cooling, global coupling, global dimming, global distillation, global distribution system, global element, global empire, global etymology, global governance, global heating, global hectare, global hoax, global illumination, global image, global indicator, globalisation, globalism, globalist, globalitarian, globality, globalization, globalize, global literature, globally, global majority, global maximum, global minimum, global north, Global North, globaloney, global order, global panini, global positioning system, Global Positioning System, global scope, global socialism, Global South, global south, global studies, global village, global warming, global warmist, global weirding, global-wide, global workspace theory, globesity, Globish, globital, globohomo, glocal, glocalization, hyperglobal, hyperglobalist, interglobal, multiglobal, nonglobal, panglobal, pseudoglobal, unglobal- Hyponyms
- quasi-global, semiglobal, sub-global, superglobal, transglobal