glob

/ษกlษ‘b/

IPA: /G L AA1 B/

noun
  1. 1

    A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.

    โ€œHe put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.โ€

  2. 2

    A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.

  3. 3

    A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

verb
  1. 1

    To stick in globs or lumps.

  2. 2

    To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glob