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Definition of Globular
1. Adjective. Having the shape of a sphere or ball. "Little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"
Similar to: Circular, Round
Derivative terms: Globe, Globosity, Globe, Globe, Globularness, Sphere, Sphere, Sphere, Sphericity, Sphere, Sphere, Sphericalness
Definition of Globular
1. a. Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms.
Definition of Globular
1. Adjective. Roughly spherical in shape. ¹
2. Adjective. Comprising globules. ¹
3. Noun. (astronomy) A globular cluster ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Globular
1. a spherical cluster of stars [n -S]
Medical Definition of Globular
1.
Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Globular
Literary usage of Globular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1879)
"The globular richness is greater in males than in females. There is according to
Malassez ... Cathartics have been found to increase the globular richness, ..."
2. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1859)
"THE establishment of the globular form of the earth is an important step in
astronomy, for it is the first of those convictions, directly opposed to the ..."
3. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"Velocity of globular Clusters.— Slipher has obtained spectrograms of 10 ...
From the presence in the great globular cluster in Hercules of many faint bluish ..."
4. Problems in Astrophysics by Agnes Mary Clerke (1903)
"globular CLUSTERS. THERE is no possibility of failing to recognise in a globular
... One hundred and ten globular clusters were registered by Sir John ..."
5. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1868)
"Also in globular forms, fibrous or lamellar, crested ; coarsely laminated, laminae
convergent and often curved ; also granular ; colors sometimes banded as ..."
6. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"When we employ two metallic electrodes we obtain a luminous spheroid, the interior
of which is FIG. ix — globular spark produced over ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1888)
"As a result we have globular, spheroidal, and cometic nebulas. ... globular Nebulae.
The remarkable appearance presented by the so-called ..."
8. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1878)
"ACTION OF IRON, COD-LIVER OIL, AND ARSENIC ON THE globular RICHNESS OF THE ...
globular richness—te number of globules found in the cubic millimetre—of ..."
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