ALL meanings of clustering
clus·ter
C c - abbreviation Technical meaning of CLUSTERING cluster 4
- noun Definition of clustering in Technology 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 clustering Present participle of cluster. 1
- noun clustering a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch: a cluster of grapes. 1
- noun clustering a group of things or persons close together: There was a cluster of tourists at the gate. 1
- noun clustering 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 clustering Phonetics. a succession of two or more contiguous consonants in an utterance, as the str- cluster of strap. 1
- noun clustering 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 clustering to gather into a cluster or clusters. 1
- verb with object clustering to furnish or cover with clusters. 1
- verb without object clustering to form a cluster or clusters: The people clustered around to watch. 1
- noun clustering The action of the verb to cluster. 0
- noun clustering A grouping of a number of similar things. 0
- noun clustering (demographics) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion. 0
- noun clustering (computing) The undesirable, contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table. 0
- noun clustering (writing) A prewriting technique consisting of writing ideas down on a sheet of paper around a central idea within a circle, with the related ideas radially joined to the circle using rays. 0