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globular

/ˈɡlɒbjʊlə/US/ˈɡlɑbjəlɚ/

globular adjective: roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped.

Adjective

globular (comparative more globular, superlative most globular)

  1. Roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped.
    • "Nary a spot," interrupted E. R. Coglan, flippantly. "The terrestrial, globular, planetary hunk of matter, slightly flattened at the poles, and known as the Earth, is my abode.[…]"1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “A Cosmopolite in a Café”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC, page 33
    • Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XV, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 152
  2. Comprising globules.

Noun

globular (plural globulars)

  1. A globular cluster

globular meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

globular in Hindi

roughly spherical
गोलाकार golākār

globular in Tamil

நரம்புத்திசுக் கட்டி, கோள வடிவான

globular in Urdu

کروی

globular in Bengali

roughly spherical
বর্তুলাকার bortulakar
More languagesFewer languages
globular in Malayalam
ഗോളാകൃതിയായ, ഗോളാകാരം, ഉണ്ടയായ, ഗോളമായ
globular in Kannada
ಗುಂಡಗೆ, ಉರುಟು, ಬಟ್ಟ, ದುಂಡು
globular in Assamese
গোটা güta

Examples of globular in a sentence

  • The breastplate was now usually globular in shape with attached tassets.
  • It was five years before a cluster variable was found outside of a globular cluster.
  • QsHUB1 and QsHUB2 showed a transient increase expression from white callogenic structures and globular embryos to immature cotyledonary embryos.

All 16 example sentences with globular

Forms of globular

Adjective
comparativemore globular
superlativemost globular
Noun
pluralglobulars

Origin of globular

From French globulaire or Medieval Latin globulāris.

Words formed from globular

Phrases with globular

Questions about globular

What does globular mean?
Globular means roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped.
What is globular in Hindi?
Globular in Hindi is गोलाकार (golākār). See Globular meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is globular?
Globular can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce globular?
Globular is pronounced /ˈɡlɒbjʊlə/ (UK).

Words near globular in the dictionary

  1. globozoospermia
  2. globozoospermic
  3. globs
  4. globster
  5. globsters
  6. globular
  7. globular cluster
  8. globular clusters
  9. globular lightning
  10. globular lightnings
  11. globularetin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: globular (page history and authors); globular (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); globular (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); globular (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); globular (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গোটা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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