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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡlɒbjʊlə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɡlɑbjəlɚ/

形容詞

globular (comparative more globular, superlative most globular)

1. Roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped.
   • 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “A Cosmopolite in a Café”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC, page 33:

     "Nary a spot," interrupted E. R. Coglan, flippantly. "The terrestrial, globular, planetary hunk of matter, slightly flattened at the poles, and known as the Earth, is my abode. […]"

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XV, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 152:

     Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 1, in Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 1: Beyond the Zero, page 4:

     Globular lights, painted a dark green, hang from under the fancy iron eaves, unlit for centuries . . .

2. Comprising globules.

派生語

関連する語

• globe
• globose
• globous
• globule

名詞

globular (plural globulars)

1. (astronomy) A globular cluster

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