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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having the shape of a globe or globule; spherical.
  2. adj. Consisting of globules.
  3. adj. Worldwide; global.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Globe-shaped ; having the form of ball or sphere; round; spherical.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Roughly spherical in shape.
  2. adj. Comprising globules.
  3. n. astronomy A globular cluster

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Globe-shaped; having the form of ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so.
  2. n. See under Globular, Gnomonic, etc.

WordNet 3.0

  1. 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.”

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  • “• 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”

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  • “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.”

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  • “This short paper gives a good summary of work done to date concerning the search for IMBHs in star clusters namely globular clusters.”

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  • “H1N1 influenza viruses in a portion of HA called the globular head differ by about 20 percent.”

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  • “For his thesis, Dr. Sandage used this trick to date a so-called globular cluster, known as”

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  • “They belong exclusively to the "globular" class, and the peculiarity is most strikingly apparent in the groups known as”

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  • “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.”

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  • “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.”

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