globular
nounEtymology From French globulaire or Medieval Latin globulāris.
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Astronomy, Natural sciences A globular cluster
globular
adjUK /ˈɡlɒbjʊlə/ · US /ˈɡlɑbjəlɚ/
Etymology From French globulaire or Medieval Latin globulāris.
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Roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped.
- "Nary a spot," interrupted E. R. Coglan, flippantly. "The terrestrial, globular, planetary hunk of matter, slightly flattened at the poles, and known as the Earth, is my abode.[…]"1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “A Cosmopolite in a Café”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC, page 33:
- Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XV, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 152:
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- Globular lights, painted a dark green, hang from under the fancy iron eaves, unlit for centuries . . .1973, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 1, in Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 1: Beyond the Zero, page 4:
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Comprising globules.