_COOKIE[] unique?

I may be getting confused over nothing here but ...

I was wondering if the _COOKIE global is unqiue to each visitor or is
it global across all visitor sessions? If it is truly global on the
server side, is it possible that a cookie from one user's session may
corrupt another user's session? How would I know which cookie goes
with which user session/browser?

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