global

(glō'bəl)
adj.

1. Having the shape of a globe; spherical.
2. Of, relating to, or involving the entire earth; worldwide: global war; global monetary policies.
3. Comprehensive; total: "a . . . global, generalized sense of loss" (Maggie Scarf).
4. Computer Science. Of or relating to an entire program, document, or file.

globally glob'al·ly adv.

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has developed its meaning from the original simple meaning 'spherical, round' to 'all-inclusive' in abstract senses (19th century) and, more recently, 'world-wide, involving the whole world', as in global warfare and the global village (coined by Marshall McLuhan in 1960 to denote the effective shrinking of the world by virtue of advanced communications), and especially in global warming, a term that became established in the 1980s to refer to the increase in the temperature of the earth's atmosphere caused by carbon emissions and other factors. Globalism and globalization, terms that date from about 1960, refer to the global, i.e. international, scale on which commerce, politics, and other aspects of human activity have tended to operate in recent years. In computer technology from the 1960s onwards, global means 'operating on the whole of a file or program', so that a global change made to an item is one that affects every occurrence of that item.

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Pertaining to an entire file, database, volume, program or system.

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adjective

1. So pervasive and all-inclusive as to exist in or affect the whole world: catholic, cosmic, cosmopolitan, ecumenical, pandemic, planetary, universal, worldwide. See limited/unlimited, specific/general.
2. Covering a wide scope: all-around, all-inclusive, all-round, broad, broad-spectrum, comprehensive, expansive, extended, extensive, far-ranging, far-reaching, general, inclusive, large, overall, sweeping, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, widespread. See specific/general.

adj

Definition: worldwide, all-encompassing
Antonyms: individual, limited, local, national, restricted

IN BRIEF: Happening throughout the world.

Having a healthy environment is a global concern.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - verdensomspændende, global

idioms:

• global warming    global opvarmning

Nederlands (Dutch)
wereld-, algemeen, bolvormig

Français (French)
adj. - mondial, global, sphérique

idioms:

• global warming    réchauffement de l'atmosphère

Deutsch (German)
adj. - Welt-, weltweit, umfassend, total

idioms:

• global warming    globaler Temperaturanstieg

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - παγκόσμιος, καθολικός, σφαιρικός, πλανητικός

idioms:

• global warming    αύξηση της γήινης θερμοκρασίας

Italiano (Italian)
globale, mondiale

idioms:

• global warming    effetto serra

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - global, inteiro

idioms:

• global warming    efeito (m) estufa

Русский (Russian)
глобальный, всеобщий

idioms:

• global warming    глобальное потепление

Español (Spanish)
adj. - mundial, esférico, global, general

idioms:

• global warming    el calentamiento del globo terráqueo

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - global

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
球形的, 全世界的, 全球的

idioms:

• global warming    地球温室效应, 全球气温上升

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 球形的, 全世界的, 全球的

idioms:

• global warming    地球溫室效應, 全球氣溫上升

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 구 모양의, 세계적인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 全世界の, 世界的な, 全体的な, 球の

idioms:

• global village    地球村
• global warming    地球温暖化

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) كروي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮כלל-עולמי, מקיף, כוללני, גלובלי, מופעל או מיושם על כל הקובץ, התוכנית וכו' (מחשב)‬

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