Blob Explained

Blob may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• The Blob (film series), a franchise of American science fiction monster-horror films
  • The Blob, 1958 American science-fiction film
  • The Blob (1988 film), a remake of the 1958 film
• The Blobs, a 1980 animated TV series
• Blob (video game), 1993
• Blob, a character in ClayFighter video games
• Blob (Marvel Comics), a comic book character
• Blobs, a former animated mascot of BBC Three
• Blob (card game), a variant of Oh Hell

Science and technology

Computing

• Object storage, or blob storage, that manages data as "blobs" or "objects"
• Binary blob, or blob, a non-free object in open source software
• Blob URI scheme, a URI scheme for binary data
• Blob, a region of an image subject to blob detection

Other uses in science

• Blob (visual system), sections of the primary visual cortex
• The blob (Chukchi Sea algae), a large algae bloom in 2009
• The Blob (Pacific Ocean), a mass of warm water in the Pacific 2013–2016
• Physarum polycephalum, or the blob, a slime mold

Other uses

• The Blob (Antarctica), a knoll on the north coast of Siple Island
• The Blob, slang for a largely interventionist policy stance that dominates the foreign policy of the United States
• Blob, related unit of slug (unit)
• Blob, mascot of USFL team Philadelphia Stars

See also

• • A Boy and His Blob, 2009 video game
• Blobbing, an outdoor water activity
• Blobfish (disambiguation), the common name of several species
• Cold blob, a mass of cold water in the North Atlantic
• de Blob, a 2008 Wii video game
• The Problem Blob, a villain in TV series the Numberjacks