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GLOBULAR
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the shape of a sphere or ball
Example:
little globular houses like mud-wasp nests
Synonyms:
ball-shaped; global; globose; globular; orbicular; spheric; spherical
Classified under:
Similar:
circular; round (having the shape or form of a circle)
Derivation:
globe (a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented)
globe (an object with a spherical shape)
globularness (the roundness of a 3-dimensional object)
Context examples:
Astronomers found a black hole between 1,400 and 3,700 solar masses at the center of 47 Tucanae, a globular cluster in the southern sky some 16,700 light-years from Earth.
(Elusive Middleweight Black Hole Found at Center of Giant Star Cluster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Even the globular clusters are oddballs: they are twice as large as typical stellar groupings seen in other galaxies.
(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)
The new research also identified at least eight large, spherical clumps of stars called globular clusters that were brought into the Milky Way by the Sausage galaxy.
(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)
Laser-zapping of a globular, golf-ball-size object on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron-nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet's sky.
(Curiosity Mars Rover Checks Odd-looking Iron Meteorite, NASA)
The investigators determined that the antibody, FluA-20, binds tightly to an area on the globular head of the HA protein that is only very briefly accessible to antibody attack.
(Human antibody reveals hidden vulnerability in influenza virus, National Institutes of Health)
Encoded by human APPBP2 Gene, ubiquitous 70 kD cytoplasmic Amyloid Beta Precursor Protein-Binding Protein 2 contains terminal globular structures, a coiled coil domain, PKC phosphorylation sites, and four imperfect C-terminal tandem repeats.
(Amyloid Beta Precursor Protein-Binding Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)
Using Hubble's exceptional resolution, his team is counting the number of globular star clusters in the galaxy's halo — a vast shell of faint stars surrounding the galaxy.
(Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy, NASA)
By comparing this score to the distribution of scores in globular and coiled-coil proteins, the program then calculates the probability that the sequence will adopt a coiled-coil conformation.
(COILS Program, NCI Thesaurus)
It's unusual to see black holes of this scale outside the center of a galaxy, but it's possible the Cow occurred in a nearby satellite galaxy or a globular star cluster whose older stellar populations could have a higher proportion of white dwarfs than average galaxies.
(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)
This protein is comprised of the first 1883 N-terminal amino acids of the nuclear mitotic apparatus protein 1, including the globular domain and the alpha helical dimerization domain, fused to the amino acids 61 to 462 of the retinoic acid receptor alpha protein, including the ligand-binding, dimerization and DNA-binding domains.
(NUMA1/RARA Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
