Crossword clues for globule
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Globule \Glob"ule\, n. [L. globulus, dim. of globus globe: cf. F. globule.]
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A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.
Globules of snow.
--Sir I. Newton.These minute globules [a mole's eyes] are sunk . . . deeply in the skull.
--Paley. (Biol.) A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc.
A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from French globule, from Latin globulus, diminutive of globus "globe" (see globe).
Wiktionary
n. A small round particle of substance; a drop.
WordNet
n. a small globe or ball
Wikipedia
Globule can refer to:
- Bok globule, dark clouds of dense cosmic dust
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Drop (liquid), small column of liquid
- Antibubbles of liquid on top of a surface of liquid
- Globule (CDN), content delivery network
- Molten globule, protein state
Globule was an open-source collaborative content delivery network developed at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam since 2006. It is implemented as a third-party module for the Apache HTTP Server that allows any given server to replicate its documents to other Globule servers. This can improve the site's performance, maintain the site available to its clients even if some servers are down, and to a certain extent help to resist to flash crowds and the Slashdot effect. the project is discontinued and is no longer maintained.
Globule takes care of maintaining consistency between the replicas, monitoring the servers, and automatically redirecting clients to one of the available replicas. Globule also supports the replication of PHP documents accessing MySQL databases. It runs on Unix and Windows systems.
Usage examples of "globule".
They consisted of short rolls of paper with a compound made of sugar and chlorate of potash on one end to which was attached a small globule of acid.
A tiny branch of the acacia, laden with golden snow, the fluffy globules glistening dewily in their bath, was swept against his fingers.
Attracted to the fields being generated by the individual pastries, independent drifting globules of the customized liqueur that Walker had lovingly hand-tailored to his own specifications proceeded to englobe each and every puff.
The fibrine of the blood puzzles the one as much as its globules puzzle the other.
On the other hand, the contents of the larger spherical glands often separated into small hyaline globules or irregularly shaped masses, which changed their forms very slowly and ultimately coalesced, forming a central shrunken mass.
It was a mass of disintegrated tissue, a putrefied gumbo of flesh and fur that now was leaking out foul-smelling globules.
But that would be easily cured, when she could get to her bag, with three globules of nux vomica--and darling Derek must not be waked up for anything!
Peter Yatt would define as feeling a rotifer astir in the curative compartment of a homoeopathic globule: and a playful fancy may do that or anything.
The snow sprinted on either side, like sparks from a blade that is being sharpened, the whiteness round about ran swifter, swifter, in pure flame the white slope flew against her, and she fused like one molten, dancing globule, rushed through a white intensity.
He tried not to smile when Lea ducked away from the globule of vomitus as it floated closer to her.
The mercury easily collects into a globule, which must be transferred, after decanting off the bulk of the water, to a weighed Berlin crucible.
Down at the bottom a globule of gold gave off light, a tiny bright mass like a writhen body, perhaps twenty grains in weight.
The thing sprayed globules of blood from tiny gaping orifices, and with the blood the breathy, bronchitic voice issued, like that of a man with water on his lungs.
Who are they that send these same globules, on which he experimented, accompanied by a little book, into families, whose members are thought competent to employ them, when they deny any such capacity to a man whose life has been passed at the bedside of patients, the most prominent teacher in the first Medical Faculty in the world, the consulting physician of the King of France, and one of the most renowned practical writers, not merely of his nation, but of his age?
Escaping through the pallet ventilation holes, the ribbon broke apart into blue-green droplets that briefly danced in weightless abandon before recongealing into large globules that undulated in the dimly lit cabin.