Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having the shape of a globe or globule; spherical.
- adj. Consisting of globules.
- adj. Worldwide; global.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Globe-shaped ; having the form of ball or sphere; round; spherical.
Wiktionary
- adj. Roughly spherical in shape.
- adj. Comprising globules.
- n. astronomy A globular cluster
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Globe-shaped; having the form of ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so.
- n. See under Globular, Gnomonic, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having the shape of a sphere or ball
Examples
“William Herschel though who first coined the term globular cluster in his catalog of deep sky objects in 1789.”
“• Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905-1993): "A Gift of Stars", researcher on variable stars in globular clusters, and writer of a popular astronomy column in the Toronto Star”
“The disk was known to be surrounded by a dim, sparse halo of old stars and odd little balls of old stars called globular clusters.”
“This short paper gives a good summary of work done to date concerning the search for IMBHs in star clusters namely globular clusters.”
“H1N1 influenza viruses in a portion of HA called the globular head differ by about 20 percent.”
“For his thesis, Dr. Sandage used this trick to date a so-called globular cluster, known as”
“They belong exclusively to the "globular" class, and the peculiarity is most strikingly apparent in the groups known as”
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
“The planets might also form in environments - such as globular star clusters - low in the heavy elements needed to form planets, since dying stars shed material enriched in such elements.”
“Our concept of the term 'globular' has had to be expanded womewhat ot avoid excluding the increasingly popular genus Echinocereus, which contains only a few truly globular members but without which the book would be of greatly reduced use to the average enthusiast.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘globular’.
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shapes
words for shape
( randomness, visual. descriptive )triangular, conical, round, broad, congruous, hexagonal, globular, curved, oval, rectangular, parallel, crumpled and 142 more...
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rolls off the tongue
Words you love saying because they feel and sound so good!
(Not to be conflated with words you love saying because they are onomatopoeic, I have another list for that)gubernatorial, predeliction, quibbling, propensity, proclivity, insidious, nebulous, garble, crabapple, piddling, prattle, wheedling and 11 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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+o +u
O before U.
noctilucent, noctilucin, noctilucous, noctua, noctuid, globular, glout, gomuti, gossypium, goura, gourami, goulash and 25 more...
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Circular
Adjectives meaning circular
circinate, orbicular, rotund, cyclic, arrondi, globose, orbiculate, annular, spherical, spheroid, globular, cricoid
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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old faves
ones I already liked
vacuole, organelle, debauchle, voluptuous, spry, cattywampus, obscure, occlude, occult, celtic, voracious, ardently and 133 more...
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globi-, globo
round; ball shaped; spherical
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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nfrank's Words
antediluvian, equivocate, inchoate, denouement, effulgent, edify, endemic, palimpsest, apropos, circumnavigate, circumlocution, cognoscente and 484 more...
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Gravity's Rainbow
naphtha, cockades, globular, wastrels, mullioned, masionette, epicurean, impasto, pendulous, contrail, miasmata, kreplach and 5 more...
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Lactose's Words
globular, sopophoric, wibble, mung, fooble, taboo, snicker, interrobang, spigot, palooka, quixotic, obfuscate and 9 more...
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