Blob may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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''The Blob'' (film series), a franchise of American science fiction monster-horror films
** ''
The Blob
''The Blob'' is a 1958 American science fiction horror film directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. from a screenplay by Theodore Simonson and Kate Phillips, based on an idea by Irving H. Millgate. It stars Steve McQueen (in his first leading role ...
'', 1958 American science-fiction film
**
''The Blob'' (1988 film), a remake of the 1958 film
* ''
The Blobs'', a 1980 animated TV series
*
''Blob'' (video game), 1993
* Blob, a character in ''
ClayFighter
''ClayFighter'' is a fighting/beat 'em up series of video games. The series has character sprites rendered from clay-animated figures, and parodies of other fighting games such as ''Street Fighter'' and ''Mortal Kombat''.
''ClayFighter: Tour ...
'' video games
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Blob (Marvel 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 morbidly obese circus fre ...
, a comic book character
* Blobs, a former animated mascot of
BBC Three
BBC Three is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was first launched on 9 February 2003 with programmes for a 16 to 34-year-old target aud ...
*
Blob (card game), a variant of Oh Hell
Science and technology
Computing
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Object storage
Object storage (also known as object-based storage or blob storage) is a computer data storage approach that manages data as "blobs" or "objects", as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems, which manage data as a file hierarchy, ...
, or blob storage, that manages data as "blobs" or "objects"
*
Binary blob
In the context of free and open-source software, proprietary software only available as a binary executable is referred to as a blob or binary blob. The term usually refers to a device driver module loaded into the kernel of an open-source ...
, or blob, a non-free object in open source software
*
Blob URI scheme, a URI scheme for binary data
*
Image blob
In computer vision and image processing, blob detection methods are aimed at detecting regions in a digital image that differ in properties, such as brightness or color, compared to surrounding regions. Informally, a ''blob'' is a region of an i ...
, a region of an image subject to detection
Other uses in science
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Blob (visual system) Blobs are sections of primary visual cortex (V1) above and below layer IV where groups of neurons sensitive to color assemble in cylindrical shapes. They were first identified in 1979 by Margaret Wong-Riley in cats when she used a cytochrome oxida ...
, sections of the primary visual cortex
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The blob (Chukchi Sea algae), a large algae bloom in 2009
*
The Blob (Pacific Ocean)
The Blob is a large mass of relatively warm water in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America that was first detected in late 2013 and continued to spread throughout 2014 and 2015. It is an example of a marine heatwave. Sea surface tempe ...
, a mass of warm water in the Pacific 2013–2016
* ''
Physarum polycephalum
''Physarum polycephalum'', an Multinucleate, 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 s ...
'', or the blob, a slime mold
Other uses
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The Blob (Antarctica) The Blob () is a fairly conspicuous, mound-shaped knoll that is almost completely snow-covered, standing midway between Thurston Glacier and Armour Inlet on the north coast of Siple Island. This feature was first plotted by United States Geologic ...
, 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
The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America, including all the bureaus and offices in the United States Department of State, as mentioned in the ''Foreign Policy Agenda'' of the Department of State, are ...
* Blob, related unit of
slug (unit)
The slug is a derived unit of mass in a weight-based system of measures, most notably within the British Imperial measurement system and the United States customary measures system. Systems of measure either define mass and derive a force uni ...
* Blob, mascot of USFL team
Philadelphia Stars
See also
*
* ''
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 develo ...
'', 2009 video game
*
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 ...
, an outdoor water activity
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Blobfish (disambiguation)
Blobfish may refer to:
*Psychrolutidae, a fish family commonly known as blobfishes
**'' Psychrolutes microporos'', commonly known as a blobfish or fathead
*** Mr Blobby (fish), a individual specimen of ''Psychrolutes microporos'' and the subject o ...
, the common name of several species
*
Cold blob
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
* ''
de Blob
''De Blob'' (Stylized as ''de BLOB'') is a puzzle-platform game developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment and published by THQ for the Wii. Players explore and liberate an alien city from the evil and monochromatic INKT Corporation that has tak ...
'', a 2008 Wii video game
* The Problem Blob, a villain in TV series the ''
Numberjacks
''Numberjacks'' is a British animated/live-action children's television series, aimed particularly at children aged two to five, which was formerly shown on CBeebies and occasionally on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. It was also shown on Tiny ...
''
*
Monsters vs. Aliens
''Monsters vs. Aliens'' is a 2009 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman from a screenplay written by Let ...
, which features a character B.O.B., a brainless and living indestructible mass of blue goo
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