glob

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
2. A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

Verb

To stick in globs or lumps.

Verb

To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

Conceptes

terròs

tros

bocí

Sinònims

clod

chunk

ball

clump

lump

blob

nugget

drip

drop

raindrop

clot

Traduccions

zolla

goccia densa

damla

boule

Tropfen

Batzen

كُرة

bloc

Klumpen

σταγόνα

globule

goutte

💧

larme

motte

όγκος

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɡlɑb/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Possibly a blend of blob + gob or a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as glop, gop, blob, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.)
In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour.