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tuft
a bunch or cluster of small, usually soft and flexible parts, as feathers or hairs, attached or fixed closely together at the base and loose at the upper ends. -
agglomerate
to form or be formed into a mass or cluster; collect -
aggregate
An aggregate amount or score is made up of several smaller amounts or scores added together. -
open cluster
a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies. -
star cluster
a number of stars of common origin held together as a group by gravitational attraction. Compare globular cluster, open cluster, stellar association. -
virgo cluster
a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.