Glob
/ɡlɒb/
noun
A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
“He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.”
A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
verb
To stick in globs or lumps.
To carry out pattern matching using a glob.