Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the shape of a globe or globule; spherical.
- adjective Consisting of globules.
- adjective Worldwide; global.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Globe-shaped ; having the form of a ball or sphere; round; spherical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so.
- adjective a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection.
- adjective (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°.
- adjective sailing on the arc of a great circle, or so as to make the shortest distance between two places; circular sailing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Roughly
spherical in shape. - adjective Comprising
globules . - noun astronomy A
globular cluster
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the shape of a sphere or ball
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Examples
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William Herschel though who first coined the term globular cluster in his catalog of deep sky objects in 1789.
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William Herschel though who first coined the term globular cluster in his catalog of deep sky objects in 1789.
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William Herschel though who first coined the term globular cluster in his catalog of deep sky objects in 1789.
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William Herschel though who first coined the term globular cluster in his catalog of deep sky objects in 1789.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BMcP 2010
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• Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905-1993): "A Gift of Stars", researcher on variable stars in globular clusters, and writer of a popular astronomy column in the Toronto Star
Archive 2007-01-01 Peggy 2007
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• Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905-1993): "A Gift of Stars", researcher on variable stars in globular clusters, and writer of a popular astronomy column in the Toronto Star
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The disk was known to be surrounded by a dim, sparse halo of old stars and odd little balls of old stars called globular clusters.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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The disk was known to be surrounded by a dim, sparse halo of old stars and odd little balls of old stars called globular clusters.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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The disk was known to be surrounded by a dim, sparse halo of old stars and odd little balls of old stars called globular clusters.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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The disk was known to be surrounded by a dim, sparse halo of old stars and odd little balls of old stars called globular clusters.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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