cluster.
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
Meaning & usage
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
a cluster of islands
A cluster of flowers grew in the pot.
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. A group of galaxies, nebulae, or stars that appear to the naked eye to be near each other.
The Pleiades cluster contains seven bright stars.
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. An ensemble of bound atoms (especially of a metal) or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. A group of computers that work together.
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block (noun)).
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. A group of cases of the same disease occurring around the same place or time.
A leukemia cluster has developed in the town.
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. Synonym of lexical bundle (“a sequence of two or more words that occur in a language with high frequency but are not idiomatic”).
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A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. In full oak leaf cluster: a small bronze or silver device shaped like a twig of oak leaves and acorns which is worn on a ribbon to indicate that the wearer has been conferred the same award or decoration before; an oakleaf.
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. A secundal chord of three or more notes.
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. A pronounceable group of consonants that occur together: a consonant cluster.
The word scrub begins with a cluster of three consonants.
A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. In cluster analysis: a subset of a population whose members are similar enough to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a separate group; also, such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
A number of individuals (animals or people) collected in one place or grouped together; a crowd, a mob, a swarm.
Euphemistic form of clusterfuck (“a chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong”).
Where this word comes from
The noun is derived from Middle English cluster (“bunch, cluster, spray; compact body or mass, ball”) [and other forms], from Old English cluster, clyster (“cluster, bunch, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *klas-, *klus- (“to clump, lump together”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; to clench; to amass”)) + *-þrą (suffix forming nouns denoting an instrument or tool). The English word is probably a doublet of clot. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Dutch klister (“cluster”) (dialectal) * Icelandic klasi (“cluster; bunch of grapes”) * Low German Kluuster (“cluster”) * Swedish kluster (“cluster”)
To collect (animals, people, objects, data points, etc) into clusters (noun sense 1).
To cover (with clusters); to scatter or strew in clusters (within); to distribute (objects) within such that they form clusters.
The sea is clustered with islands.
To form a cluster or group; to assemble, to gather.
The children clustered around the puppy.
Where this word comes from
The noun is derived from Middle English cluster (“bunch, cluster, spray; compact body or mass, ball”) [and other forms], from Old English cluster, clyster (“cluster, bunch, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *klas-, *klus- (“to clump, lump together”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; to clench; to amass”)) + *-þrą (suffix forming nouns denoting an instrument or tool). The English word is probably a doublet of clot. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Dutch klister (“cluster”) (dialectal) * Icelandic klasi (“cluster; bunch of grapes”) * Low German Kluuster (“cluster”) * Swedish kluster (“cluster”)
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