globular
Speech parts
1. globular - Noun
2. globular - Adjective
3. globular - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms.
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a spherical object
nearly orbicular in shape
little globular houses like mud-wasp nests
47 Tucanae – the second most luminous globular cluster in the Milky Way, after Omega Centauri Core-collapse is thought to occur when the more massive stars in a globular cluster encounter their less massive companions.
A different method by Harlow Shapley based on the cataloguing of globular clusters led to a radically different picture: a flat disk with diameter approximately 70 kiloparsecs and the Sun far from the center.
Although globular clusters generally appear spherical in form, ellipticities can occur due to tidal interactions.