GLOBULAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does globular mean? 

• GLOBULAR (adjective)
  The adjective GLOBULAR has 1 sense:

1. having the shape of a sphere or ball

  Familiarity information: GLOBULAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOBULAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the shape of a sphere or ball

Synonyms:

ball-shaped; global; globose; globular; orbicular; spheric; spherical

Context example:

little globular houses like mud-wasp nests

Similar:

circular; round (having the shape or form of a circle)

Derivation:

globe (a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented)

globe (an object with a spherical shape)

globularness (the roundness of a 3-dimensional object)

 Context examples 

A capsule composed of small globular masses covered with an outer shell.

(Coated Pellet in Capsule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A family of globular proteins found in many plant and animal tissues that tend to bind a wide variety of ligands.

(Albumin, NCI Thesaurus)

A globular subunit of microfilaments, highly conserved Actin is one of the most abundant proteins in eukaryotic cells.

(Actin, NCI Thesaurus)

The system is located some 14,800 light-years from Earth in 47 Tucanae, one of the dense symmetrical globular clusters associated with our Milky Way galaxy.

(Astronomers Find Closest Star to A Black Hole, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Cytoskeletal Genes encode Cytoskeletal Proteins, diverse structural proteins including polymerizable globular subunits (actin, tubulin), motor ATPases (myosin, dynein), membrane-supporting linkers (spectrin, clathrin), fibrous proteins (keratin, vimentin), and many more.

(Cytoskeletal Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Diverse family of structural proteins, including polymerizable globular subunits (actin, tubulin), motor ATPases (myosin, dynein), membrane-supporting linkers (spectrin, clathrin), fibrous proteins (keratin, vimentin), and many more.

(Cytoskeletal Protein, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

A solid composed of sucrose, lactose, or other polysaccharides formed into small globular pellets of uniform size which can be classified as homeopathic.

(Homeopathic Globule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

An unit of small globular masses of various sizes.

(Globule Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid composed of sucrose, lactose or other polysaccharides formed into small globular pellets impregnated with active and/or inert ingredient(s).

(Globule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

The relationship between black holes and globular clusters is an important but mysterious one.

(Odd Behaviour of Star Reveals Lonely Black Hole Hiding in Giant Star Cluster, ESO)