global

Etymology

From globe + -al; compare French global.

adj

1. Concerning all parts of the world.
   Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily. 2003, Catherine Dupré, Importing the law in post-communist transitions, page 169
   It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […]. 2013-06-07, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
   Pollution is a global problem.
2. (not comparable) Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:
   1. (not comparable, computing) Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.
      Global variables keep support engineers employed.
   2. Which has to be considered in its entirety.
3. Spherical, ball-shaped.
   In the center was a small, global mass.
4. (not comparable) Of or relating to a globe or sphere.

noun

1. (computing) A globally scoped identifier.

adv

1. In the global manner; world-wide.
   Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s. 2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122