Blob
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A blob is a soft amorphous mass, but the term may also refer to:
- Binary large object (BLOB), in computer database systems
- Metaball a form of Procedural surface, in computer graphics,
- Blob (comics), Marvel Comics supervillain
- The Blob, 1958 and 1988 science-fiction films
- Binary blob, in computing, partial or complete segment of a program provided in binary form only, without source code
- God object or "The Blob" anti-pattern, in computer programming, an object of class which knows or does too much
- small, roughly circular assemblages of neurons in the visual cortex which respond to primarily color stimuli; they are heavily stained with cytochrome oxidase and occur in rows approximately 0.5 mm apart
- Lyman-alpha blob, a collection of galaxies and gas bubbles
- another name for globster
- a mass of sea squirts (tunicates), are often referred to as "the Blob", and are found invading many coastal waters around the world.
[edit] See also
- blobject
- Chilean Blob, mass washed ashore in Chile in 2003
- The Mississauga Blob, 1979 Canadian unidentified object
- May blobs, flowers
- A Boy and His Blob, 1989 video game
