Blob

Blob usually means a soft amorphous mass, and may refer to:

* Binary large object (BLOB), in computer database systems
* Metaballs, in computer graphics terms, are organic-looking n-dimensional objects
* Blob (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain, adversary of the X-Men
* "The Blob", 1958 American science-fiction film depicting a giant amoeba-like alien
** "The Blob" (1988 film), the remake
**"Beware! The Blob", the 1972 sequel.
*"The Blobs", an animated television series
* Blobitecture, in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, bulging form
* Binary blob, in open source computing, a non-free object file loaded into the kernel
* Blob detection, in computer vision, visual modules that detect regions in the image
* God object, or "The Blob", anti-pattern in object-oriented programming
* Blob (visual system), sections of the visual cortex where groups of neurons which are sensitive to color assemble in cylindrical shapes
* Lyman-alpha blob, a huge concentration of a gas emitting the Lyman-alpha emission line
* Globster, an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water
** Chilean Blob, a 13-tonne mass of tissue discovered in 2003 on a beach in Chile, the partial remains of a dead sperm whale
** A mass of sea squirts, found invading many coastal waters around the world
* The Blob (Clayfighter), playable character in the Clayfighter video games
* The terms "blob" and "the blob" are also offensive British slang for a menstruating woman's period.
* Blob is an English mass unit. It is the inch equivalent of the slug unit of mass.

ee also

* Blobject, a colorful, mass-produced, plastic-based, emotionally engaging consumer product
* The Mississauga Blob, a flaming object — later identified as a frisbee — that fell on a back-yard picnic table in Mississauga, Ontario in, 1979
* May blobs, "Caltha palustris" flowers
* "A Boy and His Blob", a video game developed in 1989 for the Nintendo Entertainment System
* Mr. Blobby, Noel Edmonds novelty suit character