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Blob usually means a soft amorphous mass, and may refer to:
- Binary large object (BLOB), in computer database systems
- Metaballs, in computer graphics terms, are organic-looking 3-dimensional objects
- Blob (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain, adversary of the X-Men
- The Blob, 1958 American science-fiction film depicting a giant amoeba-like alien
- The Blobs, an animated television series
- Blobitecture, in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, bulging form
- Binary blob, in open source computing, a non-free object file loaded into the kernel
- Blob detection, in computer vision, visual modules that detect regions in the image
- God object, or "The Blob", anti-pattern in object-oriented programming
- Blob (visual system), sections of the visual cortex where groups of neurons which are sensitive to color assemble in cylindrical shapes
- Lyman-alpha blob, a huge concentration of a gas emitting the Lyman-alpha emission line
- Globster, an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water
- Chilean Blob, a 13-tonne mass of tissue discovered in 2003 on a beach in Chile, the partial remains of a dead sperm whale
- there is a wii game known as De Blob and came out in 2008
- A mass of sea squirts, found invading many coastal waters around the world
- The Blob (Clayfighter), playable character in the Clayfighter video games
- The terms "blob" and "the blob" are also offensive British slang for a menstruating woman's period.
- Blob is an English mass unit. It is the inch equivalent of the slug unit of mass.
- 'Blob' and 'blobbing' were (mistaken) terms used by 107-year-old blogger Olive Riley to describe her blog.
