Blob may refer to:
Science
Computing
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Binary blob, in open source software, a non-free object file loaded into the kernel
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Binary large object
A binary large object (BLOB or blob) is a collection of binary data stored as a single entity. Blobs are typically images, audio or other multimedia objects, though sometimes binary executable code is stored as a blob. They can exist as persistent ...
(BLOB), in computer database systems
* A storage mechanism in the cloud computing platform
Microsoft Azure
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Blob URI scheme, a URI scheme for binary data
* A region in an image detected by a
blob detector.
Other science
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Blob (visual system) Blobs are sections of the visual cortex where groups of neurons that are sensitive to color assemble in cylindrical shapes. They were first identified in 1979 by Margaret Wong-Riley when she used a cytochrome oxidase stain, from which they get their ...
, sections of the visual cortex where groups of color-sensitive neurons assemble
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The blob (Chukchi Sea algae), a large blob of algae first spotted in the Chukchi Sea
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The Blob (Pacific Ocean), a mass of warm water spreading off the Pacific coast of North America
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Blob
Blob may refer to:
Science Computing
* Binary blob, in open source software, a non-free object file loaded into the kernel
* Binary large object (BLOB), in computer database systems
* A storage mechanism in the cloud computing platform M ...
, a common name for
Physarum polycephalum
''Physarum polycephalum'', an acellular slime mold or myxomycete popularly known as "the blob", is a protist with diverse cellular forms and broad geographic distribution. The “acellular” moniker derives from the plasmodial stage of the li ...
, a slime mold species
Entertainment
* ''
The Blob
''The Blob'' is a 1958 American science fiction horror film directed by Irvin Yeaworth, and written by Kay Linaker and Theodore Simonson. It stars Steve McQueen (in his first feature film leading role) and Aneta Corsaut and co-stars Earl Rowe ...
'', 1958 American science-fiction film depicting a giant, amoeba-like alien
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''The Blob'' (1988 film), a remake of the 1958 film
* ''
The Blobs'', an animated television series
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''Blob'' (video game), a 1993 Amiga video game
* The Problem Blob, a villain in the BBC television series the ''
Numberjacks''
* ''
de Blob
''De Blob'' (stylized as ''de BLOB'') is a puzzle-platform game. Players explore and liberate an alien city from the evil, monochromatic INKT Corporation that has taken over the city and outlawed all color and fun from daily life. Playing as Blob, ...
'', a 2008 Wii video game
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The Blob (''Clayfighter''), a playable character in the ''ClayFighter'' video games
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Blob (comics)
The Blob (Frederick J. "Fred" Dukes) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an adversary of the X-Men. A mutant originally depicted as a fat circus freak, the Blo ...
, a Marvel Comics supervillain, adversary of the X-Men
* Blobs, a former animated mascot of the British television channel ''
BBC3''
Games
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Blob (card game)
Blob may refer to:
Science Computing
* Binary blob, in open source software, a non-free object file loaded into the kernel
* Binary large object (BLOB), in computer database systems
* A storage mechanism in the cloud computing platform M ...
, a British scoring variant of the card game, Oh Hell
Weights and measures
* Blob, a British unit of mass, equal to twelve
slugs
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a sma ...
Other
* A nickname for the
foreign policy establishment in the United States
* Blob, mascot of the
Philadelphia Stars
See also
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A Boy and His Blob
''A Boy and His Blob'' is a puzzle-platform game developed by WayForward Technologies and published by Majesco Entertainment. It is a re-imagining of the 1989 video game, '' A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia'', which was originally dev ...
, a 2009 video game
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Blobbing
Blobbing is an outdoor water activity in which a participant sits on the end of a partly inflated air bag (known as a water trampoline or blob) and is launched into the water when another participant jumps onto the air bag from a platform on the o ...
, an outdoor activity where a participant sits on an inflated air bag, or blob, and is launched into the air and falls into a body of water
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Blobfish (disambiguation), deep sea fish
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Cold blob (North Atlantic)
The cold blob in the North Atlantic (also called the North Atlantic warming hole) describes a cold temperature anomaly of ocean surface waters, affecting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) which is part of the thermohaline ci ...
, a mass of cold water in the North Atlantic
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