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glome

noun, verb — 5 senses

glome

noun

UK /ˈɡləʊm/ · US /ˈɡloʊm/

Etymology Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe.

1

Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.

2

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences A globular head of flowers.

3

Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.

glome

verb

Etymology An alteration of gloom, from Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”). More at gloom.

1

Obsolete To look gloomy, morose, dark or sullen.

  • Not with loathsome muck as a den unclean, Nor palace like, whereat disdain may glomea. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Praise of Mean and Constant Estate:

glome

noun

Etymology An alteration of gloom, from Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”). More at gloom.

1

Obsolete gloom or gloam

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