globule

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  1. noun A small spherical mass, especially a small drop of liquid.

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  • Some of the chambers extended thirty or forty feet out beyond the tower, and Ada had no clue how the green globule was attached to the concrete and steel. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
  • * Phase transitions that occur in biosystems (protein crystallisation, globule-coil transition etc) * Liquid crystallinity as an example of the delicate range of partially ordered phases found with biological molecules —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • THE LITTLE STAR Scintillate, scintillate, globule orific, Fain would I fathom thy nature's specific. —  The Book of Humorous Verse
  • P'r'aps 652 Scintillate scintillate, globule orific 476 "Scorn not the sonnet," though its strength be sapped 281 See yonder goes old Mendax, telling lies 369 Sez Alderman Grady 232 Sez Corporal Madden to Private McFadden 230 Shall I, mine affections slack 526 She flung the parlour window wide 205 Shepherd. —  The Book of Humorous Verse
  • For in sudden changes of mood and in effective contrast the tones came showering forth in keen, quick staccato, every one as round and distinct as a globule, but as unindividualized in the swift exuberance of the whole as a drop in a summer's rain; the bow was but a glancing line of light in its rapidity, and the bounding movement of the theme set many a foot astir marking time. —  The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French, from Latin globulus, diminutive of globus, sphere.

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  1. from French globule = Spanish glóbulo = Portuguese Italian globulo, from Latin globulus, a little ball, diminutive of globus, a ball: see globe.
 

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/ˈglɑbjul/
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