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The Blob (Antarctica), a knoll on the north coast of Siple Island; The Blob, slang for a largely interventionist policy stance that dominates the foreign policy of the United States; Blob, related unit of slug (unit) Blob, mascot of USFL team Philadelphia Stars
Suction spot – Older term for a subvortex. Supercell (sup) Supercell composite parameter (SCP) – Model parameter calculated using Instability values, Helicity, and effective bulk wind difference. Supertornado – (slang) A colloquial term used to refer to a tornado achieving the maximum of some measurement, such as a F5/EF5 tornado.
Slang used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z; generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world) differs from slang of earlier generations; [1] [2] ease of communication via Internet social media has facilitated its rapid proliferation, creating "an unprecedented variety of linguistic variation". [2] [3] [4]
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
The inch version of the slug (equal to 1 lbf⋅s 2 /in, or 12 slugs) has no official name, [3] but is commonly referred to as a blob, [12] slinch (a portmanteau of the words slug and inch), [13] [14] slugette, [15] or snail. [16] It is equivalent to 386.0886 pounds (175.1268 kg) based on standard gravity. [3]
Blobitecture (from blob architecture), blobism and blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped building form. [1] Though the term blob architecture was already in vogue in the mid-1990s, the word blobitecture first appeared in print in 2002, in William Safire 's "On Language" column in ...
The term has been around in Black American communities since the 1990s, appearing as early as 1992 on "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube, who raps: "No flexin', didn't even look in a n----'s direction."
Physarum polycephalum, an acellular [1] slime mold or myxomycete popularly known as "the blob", [2] is a protist with diverse cellular forms and broad geographic distribution. The “acellular” moniker derives from the plasmodial stage of the life cycle : the plasmodium is a bright yellow macroscopic multinucleate coenocyte shaped in a ...