global

comparative more global · superlative most global

1. Concerning all parts of the world.

   Pollution is a global problem.

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   World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror are global conflicts.

   Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily.

   2003, Catherine Dupré, Importing the law in post-communist transitions, page 169

   It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].

   2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation isn't just about profits. It's about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2021, page 19

   Synonyms: world-wide, planetary

2. not comparablePertaining to the whole of something; total, universal

   The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator.

   2013 December 30, Matthew Katze, Don Crawford, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud, →ISBN, page 366

3. Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:
   1. not comparablecomputingOf a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.

      Global variables keep support engineers employed.

   2. not comparableWhich has to be considered in its entirety.
4. Spherical, ball-shaped.

   In the center was a small, global mass.

   Synonyms: ball-shaped, globular, round, spherical

5. not comparableOf or relating to a globe or sphere.

plural globals

1. computingA globally scoped identifier.

comparative more global · superlative most global

1. In the global manner; world-wide.

   Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

   2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122