global

adjective

1. 1

   Concerning all parts of the world.

   Pollution is a global problem.

   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.

   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 […].

2. 2

   Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal

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

3. 3

   Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal: Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.

   Global variables keep support engineers employed.

4. 4

   Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal: Which has to be considered in its entirety.

5. 5

   Spherical, ball-shaped.

   In the center was a small, global mass.

6. 6

   Of or relating to a globe or sphere.

noun

1. 1

   A globally scoped identifier.

adverb

1. 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.

Forms

plural

globals

comparative

more global

superlative

most global