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1. Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
   "global war"; "global monetary policy";
   - planetary, world, worldwide, world-wide
    
2. Having the shape of a sphere or ball
   "little global houses like mud-wasp nests";
   - ball-shaped, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical
    
3. (computing) of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program

See also: circular, international, round

Encyclopedia: Global