Noun

(en noun)

A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.

* 1869 : Norman Lockyer et al, Nature

Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment .

* 1895 : The Annual of the British School at Athens

It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs , which can just be distinguished on the photographs.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

But there, on the very top, is a hollow full of water, with a sandy bottom; with a blob of jelly stuck to the side, and some mussels.

In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422151828.htm]

(dialect) A bubble, a bleb.

A small freshwater fish (Uranidea richardsoni ); the miller's thumb.

Noun

(en noun)

A length of some object.

One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.

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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment' of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical ' segment was called a reading stone,

(label) A portion.

# A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.

# (label) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).

# (label) Any of the pieces that comprise an order tree.

(label) A portion.

# (label) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.

# (label) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.

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In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.

# (label) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.

(label) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 29, author=Nathan Rabin

, title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992) , passage=In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.}}

(label) An Ethernet bus.

(label) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.

(label) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.