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“globular”
globular (adjective), more globular, most globular
1. Referring to something that has the form of a ball, spherical: Jill's mother said,"Don't let those pills fall down because they have quite a globular shape!"
2. Consisting of globules: The rain that precipitation was composed of wet globular drops.
3. Worldwide; global: The news on TV was of a globular nature depicting situations and problems that existed throughout the world.
2. Consisting of globules: The rain that precipitation was composed of wet globular drops.
3. Worldwide; global: The news on TV was of a globular nature depicting situations and problems that existed throughout the world.
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(Latin: of, relating to, or resembling; compound of the suffixes -ule, "little, small" and -ar, "pertaining to, of the nature of, like"; and so, -ular is a combining form meaning: referring to something "specified": appendicular, molecular, pedicular; as well as, a combining form meaning "resembling" something specified: circular, globular, tubular)
(Greek: ball, round, around; globe, global; body of globular form; by extension, circular zone, circular area)
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globular cluster
A spherical collection of star, the concentration of which increases greatly toward the center.
The stars are probably of the same age, and the clusters as a whole move in highly elliptical orbits that take them high above the galactic center.
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Astronomy and related astronomical terms
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globular clusters
1. Dense groups of thousands to millions of stars.
2. A spherically symmetric collection of stars which have shared a common origin.
2. A spherically symmetric collection of stars which have shared a common origin.
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Astronomy and related astronomical terms
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