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GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries is a semiconductor contract manufacturer founded in 2009 as a joint venture of AMD and Abu Dhabi's ATIC, with fabs in the United States, Germany, and Singapore.
Globalism
Globalism: a political ideology endowing globalization with norms, values, and meanings, distinct from globalization itself; coined by 1940s Anglo-American thinkers, now also a pejorative and, in "national globalism," a nationalist variant.
Globalization
Globalization is the process by which goods, services, capital, information, and people flow across national borders, eroding their economic significance; it has advanced in waves since the mid-19th century.
Globalization and World Cities Research Network
GaWC (Globalization and World Cities Research Network), a Loughborough University research network founded by Peter J. Taylor in 1998, classifies world cities into alpha, beta, gamma, and sufficiency tiers using the interlocking network model of advanced producer services firms.
Globalize the intifada
Globalize the intifada (also globalise the intifada) is a pro-Palestinian protest slogan invoking the First and Second Palestinian uprisings. It traces to 2002 anti-war activism and Esther Kaplan's 2003 essay, and is contested as either solidarity or a call for violence against Jews.
Globally asynchronous, locally synchronous
Globally asynchronous, locally synchronous (GALS) is a digital design style, introduced by Chapiro in 1984, where each chip block runs on its own clock and communicates asynchronously.
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) is a United Nations system classifying chemical hazards through harmonized labels and safety data sheets.
Globally hyperbolic spacetime
A globally hyperbolic spacetime is a Lorentzian spacetime with no closed causal curves and compact causal diamonds; it admits a Cauchy surface, making the initial-value problem well posed.
Globalsat Group
Globalsat Group, also known as Globalsat, is a Pan-American mobile and fixed satellite services consortium founded in 1999 in Bolivia and headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.
Globalstar
Globalstar is an American satellite telecommunications company headquartered in Covington, Louisiana, providing mobile satellite and IoT services from a low Earth orbit constellation that has carried Apple's Emergency SOS via satellite since 2022.
GlobalWafers
GlobalWafers (环球晶圆) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of semiconductor-grade silicon wafers, spun off from Sino-American Silicon Products in 2011, headquartered in Hsinchu and the world's third-largest wafer supplier.
Globant
Globant is an Argentine-founded technology services company offering digital transformation, software engineering, and AI services, listed on the New York Stock Exchange since its 2014 IPO.
Globe
Globe: a spherical scale model of Earth, the only representation of the whole surface without projection distortion. Oldest surviving is Behaim's 1492 Erdapfel; built from gores; contrasted with flat maps like Mercator.
Globe (band)
globe (グローブ) is a Japanese music unit of Tetsuya Komuro, KEIKO, and MARC PANTHER that debuted August 9, 1995 with 'Feel Like dance'. Their 1996 debut album sold over four million copies, a Japan record at the time.
Globe (tabloid)
Globe, also known as Globe Magazine, is an American weekly supermarket tabloid covering celebrity gossip, politics, the British Royal Family, and high-profile crimes in a sensationalist style.
Globe Life Field
Globe Life Field, Arlington, Texas: retractable-roof MLB park, home of the Texas Rangers since 2020, also called the Rangers' new ballpark after Globe Life Park; $1.2 billion, 40,300 seats, 2020 World Series bubble and 2023 championship venue.
Globe Soccer Awards
Globe Soccer Awards (Dubai d'Or): annual football awards founded 2010 by Tommaso Bendoni, held in Dubai each December or January; winners chosen by global fan vote plus a jury, with Dembélé and Bonmatí the 2025 top winners.
Globe Telecom
Globe Telecom, Inc. is a major Philippine telecommunications company providing mobile, broadband, and enterprise services, headquartered in Taguig and one of the country's two dominant operators.
Globe Theatre
Globe Theatre: Elizabethan open-air playhouse built 1599 on Bankside, Southwark, from timbers of the Theatre; home of Shakespeare's Lord Chamberlain's/King's Men; burned 1613, rebuilt 1614, demolished 1644; reconstructed 1997 as Shakespeare's Globe.
Globe Unity Orchestra
The Globe Unity Orchestra is a rotating free-jazz orchestra founded by German pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach in 1966 for the Berlin Jazz Festival, drawing improvisers from across Europe, Japan, and the United States.
Globe valve
A globe valve, also called a stop valve, is a linear-motion valve with a spherical body, built for precise throttling of flow at the cost of pressure drop.
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Globicephala macrorhynchus, the short-finned pilot whale, a large social oceanic dolphin of tropical and warm-temperate oceans; deep squid-diving, female-based groups, menopause, Naisa and Shiho types.
Globicephala melas
Globicephala melas, the long-finned pilot whale (also Globicephala melaena, calderón negro, grindahvalur), is a large oceanic delphinid of the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean, known for long sickle-shaped flippers, matrilineal pods, mass strandings, and Faroese drive hunts.
Globodera ellingtonae
Globodera ellingtonae is a cyst nematode described in 2012 from Oregon and Idaho potato fields, also found in Argentina and Chile; a close relative of G. rostochiensis that reproduces on potato but is not a strong pathogen and not a quarantine pest.
Globodera pallida
Globodera pallida, pale or white potato cyst nematode (Heterodera pallida), a quarantined Andean-origin sedentary endoparasitic nematode of Solanaceae, mainly potato, in 55 countries, causing up to 80% crop loss.
Globodera rostochiensis
Globodera rostochiensis, the golden or yellow potato cyst nematode (Heterodera rostochiensis), is an Andean-origin quarantine roundworm pest of potato, present in 76 countries, forming cysts with 200-500 eggs viable for decades.
Globoidal cam indexer
The globoidal cam indexer, also called a roller gear cam indexer, uses an hourglass-shaped cam meshing with rollers to convert continuous rotation into precise intermittent motion in automated machinery.
Globoplay
Globoplay is a Brazilian subscription video streaming service owned by Grupo Globo, launched in 2015, combining on-demand video with live Globo channels and available in more than 20 countries.
Globster
Globster: amorphous collagenous masses of decomposed tissue that wash ashore, term coined by Ivan T. Sanderson in 1962. Famous cases (St. Augustine 1896, Chilean blob) resolved by DNA as whale blubber, not sea monsters.
Globular
Globular is the psydub project of British producer Morison Bennett, based in Bristol, England, active since 2010 and known for melodic psychedelic dub released mostly without record labels.