Globbing has an ambivalent definition given that it’s mostly used for filename matches (especially given its origin as the glob command), but it’s really a specific form of pattern matching using wildcards such as * and ?, it need not apply only to filenames or paths on the filesystem: this matching is also used to match strings in case/in/esac constructs and test’s == !=

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Condition...

I guess one could say globbing is applying this pattern matching to filter a list.