blob in English dictionary

  • blob

    Meanings and definitions of "blob"

    • A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
    • In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.[ ]
    • (dialect) A bubble, a bleb.
    • noun
      A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
    • noun
      In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.[1]
    • noun
      (dialect)
      A bubble, a bleb.
    • noun
      A small freshwater fish ( Uranidea richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
    • noun
      Alternative spelling of [i]BLOB[/i]
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To drop in the form of a blob or blobs
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
    • A discrete packet of binary data that has an exceptionally large size, such as pictures or audio tracks stored as digital data, or any variable or table column large enough to hold such values. The designation "binary large object" typically refers to a packet of data that is stored in a database and is treated as a sequence of uninterpreted bytes.
    • noun
      an indistinct shapeless form
    • verb
      make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"

    Synonyms of "blob" in English dictionary

    change surface, blot, fleck are the top synonyms of "blob" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of blob

    • blob ( plural  blobs)
    • lp  liczba pojedyncza blob; lm  liczba mnoga blobs
    • blob (plural blobs)
    • blob (third-person singular simple present blobs, present participle blobbing, simple past and past participle blobbed)
  • BLOB

    Meanings and definitions of "blob"

    • (databases) Binary large object; a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length.
    • noun
      (databases)
      Acronym of [i]binary large object[/i]. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).

    Grammar and declension of blob

    • BLOB ( plural  BLOBs)
    • BLOB (plural BLOBs)
  • Blob

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