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ALL meanings of cluster

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  • countable noun cluster A cluster of people or things is a small group of them close together. 3
  • verb cluster If people cluster together, they gather together in a small group. 3
  • noun cluster a number of things growing, fastened, or occurring close together 3
  • noun cluster a number of persons or things grouped together 3
  • noun cluster a metal insignia worn on a medal ribbon to indicate a second award or a higher class of a decoration or order 3
  • noun cluster a group of bombs dropped in one stick, esp fragmentation and incendiary bombs 3
  • noun cluster the basic unit of mines used in laying a minefield 3
  • noun cluster an aggregation of stars or galaxies moving together through space 3
  • noun cluster a group of two or more consecutive vowels or consonants 3
  • noun cluster a naturally occurring subgroup of a population used in stratified sampling 3
  • noun cluster a chemical compound or molecule containing groups of metal atoms joined by metal-to-metal bonds 3
  • noun cluster the group of linked metal atoms present 3
  • verb cluster to gather or be gathered in clusters 3
  • noun cluster a number of things of the same sort gathered together or growing together; bunch 3
  • noun cluster a number of persons, animals, or things grouped together 3
  • noun cluster a group of nonsyllabic phonemes, esp. a group of two or more consecutive consonants 3
  • intransitive verb cluster to gather or grow in a cluster or clusters 3
  • noun cluster group 1
  • intransitive verb cluster form a group 1
  • transitive verb cluster group together 1
  • noun Technical meaning of cluster 1.   (architecture)   Multiple servers providing the same service. The term may imply resilience to failure and/or some kind of load balancing between the servers. Compare RAIS. 2.   (file system)   An elementary unit of allocation of a disk made up of one or more physical blocks. A file is made up of a whole number of possibly non-contiguous clusters. The cluster size is a tradeoff between space efficiency (the bigger is the cluster, the bigger is on the average the wasted space at the end of each file) and the length of the FAT. 1
  • noun cluster a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch: a cluster of grapes. 1
  • noun cluster a group of things or persons close together: There was a cluster of tourists at the gate. 1
  • noun cluster U.S. Army. a small metal design placed on a ribbon representing an awarded medal to indicate that the same medal has been awarded again: oak-leaf cluster. 1
  • noun cluster Phonetics. a succession of two or more contiguous consonants in an utterance, as the str- cluster of strap. 1
  • noun cluster Astronomy. a group of neighboring stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that have essentially the same age and composition and thus supposedly a common origin. Compare globular cluster, open cluster, stellar association. 1
  • verb with object cluster to gather into a cluster or clusters. 1
  • verb with object cluster to furnish or cover with clusters. 1
  • verb without object cluster to form a cluster or clusters: The people clustered around to watch. 1
  • noun cluster A group of similar things or people positioned or occurring closely together. 1
  • noun cluster A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other. 0
  • noun cluster A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob. 0
  • noun cluster (astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other. 0
  • noun cluster (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes. 0
  • noun cluster (phonetics) A group of consonants. 0
  • noun cluster (computing) A group of computers that work together. 0
  • noun cluster (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block). 0
  • noun cluster (statistics) A significant subset within a population. 0
  • noun cluster (military) Set of bombs or mines. 0
  • noun cluster (army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before. 0
  • noun cluster (chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid. 0
  • verb cluster (Intransitive Verb) To form a cluster or group. 0
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