What is another word for globule?

Pronunciation: [ɡlˈɒbjuːl] (IPA)

Globule refers to a small spherical shape of a liquid or a small rounded particle. Synonyms for globule include droplet, bead, ball, sphere, pellet, and orb. These words depict the same small, rounded shape but may vary in their size, texture, and context of usage. For instance, droplet and bead are more commonly used to describe small drops of water, while a sphere and orb are often referred to as three-dimensional objects. Pellet, on the other hand, has a slightly different connotation as it can also be used to refer to a small cylindrical piece of compressed material, usually for industrial use.

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What are the hypernyms for Globule?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • hypernyms for globule (as nouns)

What are the hyponyms for Globule?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Usage examples for Globule

The separate drops gather together in the depression at the centre of the plate, forming a very large flattened globule.
"Liquid Drops and Globules, their Formation and Movements"
Chas. R. Darling
The plugs of iron, or of iron and carbon, are separated by an exceedingly small globule of mercury, the size of which should be between one and a-half and three millimetres.
"Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy"
John Ambrose Fleming
Copernicus changed the point of view, and placing the beholder in the sun, at once reduced the earth to an inconspicuous globule, a merely subordinate member of a family of planets, which the terrestrials had, until then, fondly imagined to be but pendants and ornaments of their own habitation.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh

Famous quotes with Globule

  • I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
  • The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

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