Meaning of cluster | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
2. group
3. A group of galaxies, nebulae, or stars that appear to the naked eye to be near each other.
4. party, team, crew, gang, squad,
5. cluster, bunch, clump, pool, grouping, lot, batch
6. An ensemble of bound atoms (especially of a metal) or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
   physical
7. bracket (range)
8. A group of computers that work together.
9. caucus (i.e. a grouping of members)
10. A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block (noun)).
11. A group of cases of the same disease occurring around the same place or time.
12. Synonym of lexical bundle (“a sequence of two or more words that occur in a language with high frequency but are not idiomatic”).
13. A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
14. 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.
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15. A secundal chord of three or more notes.
16. A pronounceable group of consonants that occur together: a consonant cluster.
17. 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.
18. A number of individuals (animals or people) collected in one place or grouped together; a crowd, a mob, a swarm.
19. Euphemistic form of clusterfuck (“a chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong”).
    euphemistic, form-of, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“a cluster of islands”

“A cluster of flowers grew in the pot.”

“Her deeds vvere like great gluſters of ripe grapes, / VVhich load the bunches of the fruitfull vine: / Offring to fall into each mouth that gapes, / And fill the ſame vvith ſtore of timely vvine.”

“VVoe is mee, for I am as when they haue gathered the ſummer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluſter to eate: my ſoule deſired the firſt ripe fruit.”

“The Father of Nic. Fontanus ſavv five Vertebræ or VVhirle-bones of the Spina in a cluſter like a round ball, in the Body of a Porter that carried burthens.”

“Then I ſavv in my Dream, that theſe good Companions, vvhen Chriſtian vvas gone dovvn to the bottom of the Hill, gave him a loaf of Bread, a bottle of VVine, and a cluſter of Raiſins; and then he vvent on his vvay.”

“[A]ll the cluſter of Iſlands lying South of the Audeman [i.e., Andaman] Iſlands are called by our Seamen the Nicobar Iſlands.”

“Spread all thy Purple Cluſters, Tempting Vine, / And Thou, once Dreaded Foe, Bright Beauty, ſhine, […]”

“Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs, […]”

“Charlie Mulgrew's delicious deadball delivery was attacked by a cluster of green and white shirts at [Allan] McGregor's back post but [Joe] Ledley got up higher and with more purpose than anyone else to thump a header home from five yards.”

“The easiest way is to fly from Los Angeles to Christchurch, New Zealand—a journey of 17 hours, if you're lucky—and then to McMurdo, a charmless cluster of buildings that houses most of the southern continent's thousand or so seasonal residents and both of its ATMs.”

“The Pleiades cluster contains seven bright stars.”

“My fellow biotic: You have been selected to receive this transmission because of our shared plight. Few understand us, fewer tolerate us. We must stand together. We must build our own new world. Come. Join us in the Hawking Eta cluster. Only as one body can we right the wrongs done to our kind.”

“A computer cluster is a collection of two or more computers used to execute a given problem or section. Typically, in a computer cluster, the interconnection network tying the computers together is a local area network (LAN). […] The computers in the cluster communicate among themselves and among the shared memory.”

“A leukemia cluster has developed in the town.”

“examples of clusters would include in accordance with, so far, and the results of”

“The word scrub begins with a cluster of three consonants.”

“VVe lou'd him, / But like Beaſts / And Covvardly Nobles, / Gaue vvay vnto your Cluſters, vvho did hoote / Him out o' th' Citty.”

“[T]hey all alight, and then they go to the ſecond gate, and if peraduenture they cannot get in, they ſit there vvithout, as Bees doe in the Sunne, all in a cluſter.”

“As Bees / In ſpring time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, / Poure forth their populous youth about the Hive / In cluſters; they among freſh dews and flowers / Flie to and fro, […]”

“Earless ghost swift moths become "invisible" to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.”

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