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global in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. having the shape of a sphere or ball
    "a spherical object"; "nearly orbicular in shape"; "little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"- Zane Grey
    ball-shaped  global  globose  globular  orbicular  spheric  spherical 
  2. involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
    "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance"
    global  planetary  world  worldwide  world-wide 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


global in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (adjective) spherical, ball-shaped
  2. (adjective) (context/not comparable) of or relating to a globe or sphere
  3. (adjective) (context/not comparable) concerning all parts of the world
  4. (adjective) (context/not comparable/computing) of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program
  5. (noun) (computing) A globally scoped identifier.
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