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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Conglobated; p. pr. & vb. n. Conglobating. ] [ Cf. Conglore. ] To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conglobated bubbles undissolved. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conglobatio: cf. F. conglobation. ] 1. The act or process of forming into a ball. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A round body. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Conglobed p. pr. & vb. n. Conglobing. ] [ L. conglobare: cf. F. conglober. Cf. Conglobate. ] To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then founded, then conglobed
Like things to like. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. con- + globule. ] To gather into a small round mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a compact mass, especially of a semiliquid or viscous substance; as, a glob of glue fell on my shoe.
Syn. -- ball, clod, lump, clump, chunk. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. 1. involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; as, global war; global monetary policy.
Syn. -- planetary, worldwide. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. shaped like a globe; spherical.
Syn. -- ball-shaped, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. broad in scope or content; comprehensive. Opposite of noncomprehensive.
Syn. -- all-embracing, all-inclusive, across-the-board, blanket(prenominal), broad, complete, panoptic, wide. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. (Computers) Accessible and effective throughout an entire computer program, rather than in only one subroutine; -- used of variables; as, global variable. Opposite of local. [ PJC ]

n. def>A worldwide system of electronic navigation in which a vessel, aircraft or missile determines its latitude and longitude by measuring the transmission time from several orbiting satellites. GPS is more precise than any other navigation system available, yielding position accurate within 10 meters 95% of the time.
Syn. -- GPS.
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The precision of the GPS is dependent upon the very high timing accuracy of atomic clocks. Although the military originally intentionally degraded the signal and thus the accuracy for civilian users, GPS was nevertheless more precise than any other navigation system available. In 2000, President Clinton issued an executive order discontinuing the degrading of the signal for civilians. [ RH ]

On June 26, 1993 . . . the U.S. Air Force launched the 24th Navstar satellite into orbit, completing a network of 24 satellites known as the Global Positioning System, or GPS. With a GPS receiver that costs less than a few hundred dollars you can instantly learn your location on the planet -- your latitude, longitude, and even altitude -- to within a few hundred feet.
This incredible new technology was made possible by a combination of scientific and engineering advances, particularly development of the world's most accurate timepieces: atomic clocks that are precise to within a billionth of a second. https://web.archive.org/web/20011125121826/http://www4.nationalacademies.org/beyond/beyonddiscovery.nsf/web/gps?OpenDocument [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. globerde, from glow. ] A glowworm. [ Obs. ] Holland.

{ } a. [ L. globatus, p. p. of globare to make into a ball, fr. globus ball. ] Having the form of a globe; spherical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. globus, perh. akin to L. glomus a ball of yarn, and E. clump, golf: cf. F. globe. ] 1. A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square. [ 1913 Webster ]

Him round
A globe of fiery seraphim inclosed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Globe amaranth (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gomphrena (G. globosa), bearing round heads of variously colored flowers, which long retain color when gathered. --
Globe animalcule, a small, globular, locomotive organism (Volvox globator), once throught to be an animal, afterward supposed to be a colony of microscopic algæ. --
Globe of compression (Mil.), a kind of mine producing a wide crater; -- called also overcharged mine. --
Globe daisy (Bot.), a plant or flower of the genus Globularing, common in Europe. The flowers are minute and form globular heads. --
Globe sight, a form of front sight placed on target rifles. --
Globe slater (Zool.), an isopod crustacean of the genus Spheroma. --
Globe thistle (Bot.), a thistlelike plant with the flowers in large globular heads (Cynara Scolymus); also, certain species of the related genus Echinops. --
Globe valve. (a) A ball valve. (b) A valve inclosed in a globular chamber. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Globe, Sphere, Orb, Ball. -- Globe denotes a round, and usually a solid body; sphere is the term applied in astronomy to such a body, or to the concentric spheres or orbs of the old astronomers; orb is used, especially in poetry, for globe or sphere, and also for the pathway of a heavenly body; ball is applied to the heavenly bodies concieved of as impelled through space. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Globed p. pr. & vb. n. Globing. ] To gather or form into a globe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Trollius (T. Europæus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. (b) The American plant Trollius laxus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Japan globeflower. See Corchorus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shaped like a globe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. to travel all over the world for pleasure and sightseeing. -- globe"-trot`ter, n. -- globe"-trot`ting, a. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A genus comprising the pilot whales.
Syn. -- genus Globicephala. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Globe + -ferous. ] (Zool.) Having a round or globular tip. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Globigerinæ [ NL., fr. L. globus a round body + gerere to bear. ] (Zool.) A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3, 000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biochem.) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the protein part of hemoglobin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. globosus. ] Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a globular manner; globularly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. globositas: cf. F. globosité. ] Sphericity. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Globose. ] Spherical. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. globulaire. ] Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection. --
Globular projection (Map Projection), a perspective projection of the surface of a hemisphere upon a plane parallel to the base of the hemisphere, the point of sight being taken in the axis produced beyond the surface of the opposite hemisphere a distance equal to the radius of the sphere into the sine of 45°. --
Globular sailing, sailing on the arc of a great circle, or so as to make the shortest distance between two places; circular sailing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Spherically. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sphericity; globosity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. globulus, dim. of globus globe: cf. F. globule. ] 1. A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form. [ 1913 Webster ]

Globules of snow. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

These minute globules [ a mole's eyes ] are sunk . . . deeply in the skull. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little globule. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Globule + -ferous. ] Bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks, and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated globules and evenly distributed through the texture of the rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Globule + -meter. ] (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The method depends on the differences of tint obtained by mixing a sample of the blood with sodium carbonate solution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Globule: cf. F. globuline. ] (Phisiol. Chem.) An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with hæmatin to form hæmoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Globule. ] (Min.) A rudimentary form of crystallite, spherical in shape. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. globuleux. ] Globular; spherical; orbicular. -- Glob"u*lous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. Resembling, or pertaining to, a globe; round; orbicular. “The globy sea.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Hematoglobulin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Hemoglobin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Haemoglobin + -meter. ] Same as Hemochromometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hemo- + globe. ] (Physiol.) The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called haematoglobulin. In arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystallized, is called haematocrystallin. See Blood crystal, under Blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol. Chem.) Same as Haemochromometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (1953) any one of a class of globular proteins which are antibodies and are produced by the immune system in animals. The immunoglobulins form a series of related proteins which are each composed of two pairs of polypeptide chains, called heavy (H) and light (L, meaning of lower molecular weight), all linked together by disulfide bonds. They are subdivided on the basis of the structural and antigenic properties of the H chains into four subgroups, immunoglobulin G (IgG), immunoglobulin A (IgA), immunoglobulin M (IgM), and immunoglobulin D (IgD). They are divided also into subclasses. Both H and L chains of anny given class and subclass have regions which are of constant structure within that class, as well as regions which are of variable structure. The variable regions impart the ability to recognize and bind to specific molecular structures, thus providing the organism the capacity to recognize and defend itself against the harmful effects of substances foreign to the body. Stedman
Syn. -- Ig. [ PJC ]

a. In the form of a globe or sphere; -- applied to nebulous matter collected into a sphere by the force of gravitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To infix, as in a globe; to fix or secure firmly. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Between globules; -- applied esp. to certain small spaces, surrounded by minute globules, in dentine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. met- + haemoglobin. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A stable crystalline compound obtained by the decomposition of hemoglobin. It is found in old blood stains. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Oxy- (a) + haemoglobin, hemoglobin. ] (Physiol. Chem.) See Hemoglobin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. para- + globulin. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A protein in blood serum, belonging to the group of globulins. See Fibrinoplastin. [ 1913 Webster ]