noun
glob
glob
noun
1
A round or shapeless lump of something soft or semi-liquid.
"A glob of paint dripped off the brush onto the floor."
"She scooped a glob of toothpaste onto the brush."
2
(computing) A simple wildcard pattern used to match filenames, less flexible than a full regular expression.
"The script deletes every file matching the glob *.tmp."
How to Use Glob
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA soft blob of something, or (in tech) a simple wildcard file-matching pattern.
Common pairings
a glob of
glob pattern
match a glob
Word Forms
globbed past tense, globbed past tense, globs plural, globs plural, globs singular, globs singular
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Etymology
Probably a blend of "blob" and "gob," or a shortened form of "globule" — the sound of the word matches its lumpy meaning.