In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy
You can use blob to refer to something that you cannot see very clearly, for example because it is in the distance. You could just see vague blobs of faces
Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister
A fairly small-scale temperature and moisture inhomogeneity produced by turbulence within the atmosphere
Binary large object, something that (e g within the context of XML) is treated and esp gets stored as a whole without further structuring efforts
A data type used to represent Binary Large OBjects These are typically used to store, in Enscribe files, images or serialized objects in the database The internal structure and content of a Blob object are immaterial to the NonStop Server for Java
Within a database, a special type of field - Binary Large Object - used to store audio, image, video, etc data
Media files such as graphic, video, or audio files consisting mainly of binary data 9 5
Digitized information (e g , audio, video) in a database that is more complex than traditional characters, numbers, and memos
A smart large object data type that stores any kind of binary data, including images The database server performs no interpretation on the contents of a BLOB column
A type of data column containing binary data such as graphics, sound, or compiled code This is a general term for text or image data type BLOBs are not stored in the table rows themselves, but in separate pages referenced by a pointer in the row
A large amount of binary data stored within an Oracle database BLOB data can consist of audio, video, images, documents, and so on; it is usually stored as LONG data