1. Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
   "global war"; "global monetary policy";
   - planetary, world, worldwide, world-wide
    
2. Having the shape of a sphere or ball
   "little global houses like mud-wasp nests";
   - ball-shaped, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric [rare], spherical, globoid, globate, globe-shaped
    
3. Of worldwide scope or applicability
   "an issue of global import";
   - cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical [archaic], general, universal, worldwide, world-wide
    
4. Spanning or extending throughout the entire world
   "global distribution";
   - worldwide, world-wide
    
5. (computing) of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program
   "They declared the counter as a global variable to track iterations across functions"

See also: circular, comprehensive, intercontinental, international, round

Encyclopedia: Global