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Noun: glob  glób
  1. A compact mass
    "A glob of peanut butter stuck to the roof of his mouth";
    - ball, clod, lump, clump, chunk
     
  2. (computing) a pattern matching technique using wildcards (*?), less powerful than a regular expression; often used for matching files on a file system
    "The command used a glob pattern to find all .txt files"

Derived forms: globs

Type of: agglomeration

Encyclopedia: Glob, Peter