glome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
  2. A globular head of flowers.
  3. A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.
verb
  1. To look gloomy, morose, dark or sullen.
noun
  1. gloom or gloam

Pronunciation

/ˈɡləʊm/ /ˈɡloʊm/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-glome.wav

Word forms

glome glomes gloming glomed

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe.

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