globaladj.

1637 W. Prynne Quench-coale 37 The worlde beinge plainely Circular, & globall, havinge no angles nor squares, & so no East, West, North, or South if simplie considered in it selfe.

1676 R. Dixon Nature Two Test. 2 I could challenge the best Mathematician..to demonstrate..that they can so much as..frame a Global Circle without the least gibbosity or concavity therein.

1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata ii. 8 The Global Arch, or circle of that elevated Water, kept the same Height and Distance from its Centre, round the Globe.

1771 M. Smith Christianity Unmasqued xvii. 147 As when a cannon is discharg'd, And global ore from its pris'n enlarg'd.

1848 London Mag. 119 According to the modern System..there is no Upper nor Under, the Earth being global.

1986 H. Bascom Apata i. vi. 48 The gate with frosted global lights on the concrete pillars.

1835 C. White Belgic Revol. 1830 I. iii. 60 This item was inscribed in the estimates as an absolute global outgoing, without any return or per contra, and was thus at variance with the primitive object of the parliamentary vote, which intended that it should be expended in loans to distressed manufacturers, [etc.].

1854 tr. Mem. Vienna & Berlin Cabinets in Times 31 May 9/2 If..Germany exist in regard to external relations as a united Global power in a political point of view, [etc.].

1892 Harper's Mag. Sept. 492/2 M. de Vogüé loves travel; he goes to the East and to the West for colors and ideas; his interests are as wide as the universe; his ambition, to use a word of his own, is to be ‘global’.

1928 Times 1 Oct. 14/1 The proposal for a readjustment of tonnage proportions within the global limits originally proposed by the United States.

1957 Economist 12 Oct. (Suppl.) 17 10 days of global cruising.

1961 Science 23 June 2002/1 The Air Force soon may put a monkey in prolonged global orbit.

1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 85 87 Reason..has proposed that susceptible persons are more highly receptive to incoming stimuli, and that this receptivity is global rather than being confined to one receptor system alone.

1995 Times 27 Sept. 16/2 The global sales of wine in Britain have greatly increased..and most wine bought is from the bottom end of the market. But the consumption of fine wine has also increased.

2000 Quaternary Sci. Rev. 19 1399/1 The theory of plate tectonics relegated the role of non-plate boundary seismicity to that of ‘noise’ in an otherwise complete picture of global tectonics.

2005 Independent 6 June 15/1 Towns..stripped of their identity by the global and national chains that have colonised so many of the country's high streets.

1937 Ann. Math. 38 14 It seems to me essential to make a clear distinction between properties in a point of local and of integral (or global) origin.

1948 Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 249 (title) Global theorems in Riemannian geometry.

1965 S. Lipschutz Outl. Theory & Probl. Gen. Topol. vii. 99 Continuity as we have defined it is a global property, that is, it restricts the way in which a function behaves on the entire set.

2002 M. Al-Harkan et al. in P. M. Pardalos et al. Combinatorial & Global Optimization 20 The test functions selected have several local and global minima and large flat regions enclosing the global minima.

1961 Science 24 Mar. 849/2 Menzel and Whipple..replaced the wind-swept desert and the planetary oil field with a global Seltzer ocean.

1974 Icarus 21 121/2 A solar-associated component [of infrared radiation intensity] related to the global pattern of isotherms and cloud heights which is fixed relative to the sun.

1993 K. S. Robinson Green Mars (new ed.) 197 While it remained an ice sea the increase in albedo would probably make it a net heat loss to the global system.

2002 Pop. Sci. Mar. 30/1 The image is based largely on satellite data produced by..an instrument that was launched aboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft in 1996.

1964 R. Baumann et al. Introd. Algol 43 Other quantities declared in dominant blocks can appear in a subordinate block; these quantities are said to be non-local or global relative to the subordinate block.

1984 Which Micro? Dec. 30/3 They are usually global commands which affect all aspects of the text.

2007 M. Lutz Learning Python (ed. 3) xvi. 316 We've added a global declaration to the example here, such that the X inside the def now refers to the X outside the def.

1975 E. D. Goldberg in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 189 286 The transfer from land [of vaporized DDT] with a subsequent rainout to the global ocean following transport in the wind system thus becomes a ‘global distillation process’.

1993 Independent (Nexis) 24 Jan. 55 Scientists fear the chemicals, used as pesticides and in industry, are evaporating from the soils, waste dumps and polluted lakes of Europe and North America, and condensing on to the snow and ice of the Arctic. Toronto University's Frank Wania calls the process ‘global distillation’.

2000 Reuters Features Digest (Electronic ed.) 9 Apr. The sub-zero temperatures around the Alpine peaks caused DDT, which evaporates over Africa or India, to humidify and fall as precipitation in a process known as ‘global distillation’.

1945 R. L. Owen in Global Alphabet (Hearing before U.S. Senate Comm. on Foreign Relations) 69 Our great objective is..to open to human beings everywhere in the world through books printed in global English..the accumulated knowledge of mankind.

1962 N.Y. Times 14 June 35/7 (heading) British Aide Talks On Global English In English English.

1996 NZ Infotech Weekly (Nexis) 29 July 3 Organisations that do business in Asia on the Internet should use ‘Global English’.

2002 J. Cartwright White Lightning ii. 9 Prepositions and other niceties have had to be sacrificed to global English.

1971 D. Hayes in Proc. Conf. on Cities (NATO Comm. Challenges Mod. Society) A-14 We cannot continue to use our superior productive technology to take raw materials at depressed prices from the Third World to fuel the American machine. The rampant hostility of the global South toward the global North will not long leave us this option.

2011 A. Bellamy Global Politics & Responsibility to Protect (e-book ed.) The global North, comprised of industrialized states, privilege military security and human rights issues.

1973 Aviation Week 26 Nov. 49/3 The Pentagon official said..the Global Positioning System's ‘need will be justified solely on the basis of its military value’.

1983 N. A. Chagnon Yanomamö (1992) ii. 102 I used, for the first time, what are called GPS (global positioning systems) instruments—small, hand-held instruments that receive signals from a network of satellites launched by the U.S. Department of Defense in the past several years.

1994 Onset Oct. 16/4 Pack Micrologic's Sportsman Global Positioning System (GPS) in your rucksack. A hand-held, water-resistant navigation unit, this device can be used by boaters, trailblazers and tourists alike.

2006 Metro (Toronto) 13 Sept. 22 (caption) The adventure tourism activity uses global positioning system devices..to find out-of-the-way locales.

1966 IEEE Trans. Automatic Control 11 379/1 This paper discusses a global search of a multimodal noisy performance surface using a probabilistic automaton as a model.

1979 Personal Computer World Nov. 69 (advt.) Edit facilities include global search and replace.

2006 Guardian (Nexis) 14 Sept. 3 The latest popular innovation is a global search of 24 catalogues from the portal site.

1968 New Left Notes 12 Aug. 4/3 A major obstacle to world development is the imperialist balkanization of the global South.

2019 A. Bhagwati Unbecoming xi. 201 Like many Brown folks from the global south, I could smell colonial attitudes a mile away.

1961 Computer Applic. 1960: Proc. 7th Ann. Symp. 158 In order to make an algol 60 program easy to translate to balgol, it is convenient if, in a procedure, the global variables are declared in a comment.

1964 Ann. Rev. Automatic Programming 4 201 It should be possible to preset values of global variables at the time that they are defined, or to input such values later.

2005 H. M. Deitel & P. J. Deitel C++ how to Program vi. 288 C++ provides the unary scope resolution operator (::) to access a global variable when a local variable of the same name is in scope.

1948 W. Lewis Amer. & Cosmic Man ii. 16 The earth has become one big village.]

1959 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 30 Apr. 23 A significant Toronto social philosopher, Marshall McLuhan, has an explanation for these juvenile tastes... The media contract the world to a village or a tribe,..in the sense that everyone knows about and therefore participates in everything that is happening the minute it happens. Modern media..give this quality of simultaneity to events in the global village.

1959 M. McLuhan Let. 16 May (1987) 254 It is important to understand that the Global Village pattern is caused by the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time.

1967 Punch 4 Oct. 520/1 Howdy neighbour, how're things over in your corner of the global village? Wife and audio-tactile kids okay?

1970 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 24 Oct. 19/2 There are no boundaries in a global village. All problems will become so intimate as to be one's own.

1989 S. Sontag Aids & Metaphors viii. 93 AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global village.

2004 Independent 6 Jan. i. 16/1 It is becoming harder to get around in the global village. Since 11 September 2001, air passengers have had to cope with longer check-in times, lengthy delays, [etc.].