"superglobal" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-superglobal.wav [US] Forms: superglobals [plural]
Etymology: From super- + global. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|super|global}} super- + global Head templates: {{en-noun}} superglobal (plural superglobals)
  1. (programming, in the PHP programming language) Any of a set of special predefined variables that can be accessed at any point in a program without the need to be explicitly declared as global.

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