| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In clusters.[Websters]
2. In a tufted manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a bodied manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a webbed or ribbed manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a strapping or belted manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a cushioned or padded manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a paired manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a frilled manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a striped manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adverbial inflection of the verb-based adjective clustering.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Base (Clustering) | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb cluster.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cluster) | 1. Come together as in a cluster or flock.[Wordnet]. 2. Gather or cause to gather into a cluster.[Wordnet]. 3. To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.[Websters]. 4. To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: clustering, clustered, clusters, clusterer, clusterers, clusteringly and clusteredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "CLUSTERINGLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: cluster
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Cluster | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A bunch; a number of things of the same kind growing or joined together; a knot; as a cluster of raisins.. | 2: [Noun] A number of individuals or things collected or gathered into a close body; as a cluster of bees; a cluster of people.. | 3: [Noun] A number of things situated near each other; as a cluster of governments in Italy.. | 4: [Verb] To grow in clusters; to gather or unite in a bunch, or bunches; as, clustering grapes.. | 5: [Verb] To form into flakes; as, clustering snow.. | 6: [Verb] To collect into flocks or crowds.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Aerospace | 1: A functional grouping of spacecraft, formations, or virtual platforms, possibly an element of a larger constellation. (references) | 2: International Solar Terrestrial Physics Program. (references) | 3: Two or more rocket motors bound together so as to function as one propulsion unit. (references) |
| Computing | A data network in which two or more terminals are connected to a line or data channel at a single point. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Geography | There is a type of clay structure produced by discrete aggregates of clay known as -- or packet. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Geological | A homogeneous group of units which vary "like" one another. "Likeness" is usually determined by the association, similarity, or distance among the measurement patterns associated with the units. (references) | ||
| Metallurgy | A hollow refractory block which distributes molten steel from the trumpet assembly to the runner bricks of an uphill teeming arrangement. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Military | 1. Fireworks signal in which a group of stars burns at the same time. 2. Group of bombs released together. A cluster usually consists of fragmentation or incendiary bombs. 3. Two or more parachutes for dropping light or heavy loads. 4. In land mine warfare, a component of a pattern-laid minefield. It may be antitank, antipersonnel or mixed. It consists of one to five mines and no more than one antitank mine. 5. Two or more engines coupled together so as to function as one power unit. 6. In naval mine warfare, a number of mines laid in close proximity to each other as a pattern or coherent unit. They may be of mixed types. 7. In minehunting, designates a group of mine-like contacts. (references) | ||
| Military & Defense | Group of bombs released together. A cluster usually consists of fragmentation of incendiary bombs. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Nuclear Energy & Physics | A group of fuel elements in the form of rods or pins, usually mounted parallel to one another. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Post & Telecom | Set of M contiguous cells using different radio channels. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Statistics | A group of contiguous elements of a statistical population. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Technology | Database object used to store tables that are related to one another and that are often joined together in the same area on disk. (references) | ||
| Transportation | A group of two or more parachute canopies attached to a single load and designed to open simultaneously. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before. (references) | 2: [Noun] (astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other. The Pleiades cluster contains seven bright stars. (references) | 3: [Noun] (computing) A group of computers that work together. (references) | 4: [Noun] (military) Set of bombs or mines. (references) | 5: [Noun] (music) A chord of three or more notes. (references) | 6: [Noun] (phonetics) A group of consonants. The word "scrub" begins with a cluster of three consonants. (references) | 7: [Noun] (statistics) A significant subset within a population. (references) | 8: [Noun] A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other. A cluster of flowers grew in the pot. (references) | 9: [Verb] (intransitive) To form into a cluster. The children clustered together around the puppy. (references) |
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Common Expressions: cluster
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Beehive Cluster | The Beehive Cluster (also known as The Beehive, Praesepe, Open Cluster M44, Messier Object 44, Messier 44, M44, or NGC 2632) is an open cluster in the constellation Cancer. (references) | ||
| Brocchi's Cluster | Brocchi's Cluster (also known as the Coathanger or Collinder 399) is an asterism located in the constellation Vulpecula. (references) | ||
| Butterfly Cluster | The Butterfly Cluster (also known as Messier Object 6 or NGC 6405) is an open cluster in the constellation Scorpius. It was discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and catalogued by Charles Messier in 1764 as number 6 in his catalogue of comet-like objects. (references) | ||
| Cancer cluster | Cancer cluster is a term used by epidemiologists, statisticians, and public health workers to define an occurrence of a greater-than-expected number of cancer cases within a group of people in a geographic area over a period of time. (references) | ||
| CBU-100 Cluster Bomb | The CBU-100 Cluster Bomb is a cluster bomb which is employed primarily in an anti-tank mode. It carries 247 Mk 118 Mod 0 bomblets. (references) | ||
| Centaurus Cluster | The Centaurus Cluster (A3526) is a cluster of hundreds of galaxies, located in approximately 170 millions of light years away in the Centaurus constellation. The brightest member galaxy is the elliptical galaxy NGC 4696 (~11m). The Centaurus cluster shares its supercluster, the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster, with IC4329 Cluster and Hydra Cluster. (references) | ||
| Christmas Tree Cluster | The Christmas Tree Cluster (also known as Open Cluster NGC 2264 or the Xmas Tree Cluster, and sometimes incorrectly referred as NGC 2264) is an open cluster in the Monoceros constellation. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1784. The cluster is located about 800 parsecs or 2,600 light-years away from Earth. (references) | ||
| Cluster (band) | Cluster is a German musical group whose output prefigures ambient music. (references) | ||
| Cluster (chemistry) | In chemistry, a cluster is a polycyclic array of atoms that is intermediate in character between a molecule and a solid. The shape of a cluster is based upon a triangular-faced polyhedron, also known as a deltahedron. Using a set of semi-empirical rules devised by K. Wade and extended by M. Mingos known either as Wade's Rules or Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory it is possible to determine, often unambiguously, the shape of a cluster from its chemical formula. (references) | ||
| Cluster (file system) | In file systems, a cluster is a group of disk sectors used in a File Allocation Table (FAT). For example, on a disk that uses 512-byte sectors, a 512-byte cluster contains one sector, whereas a 4-kilobyte (KiB) cluster contains eight sectors. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: cluster
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Base cluster | Military | (DOD) In base defense operations, a collection of bases, geographically grouped for mutual protection and ease of command and control. (references) | |
| Block cluster | Census | A single block or a group of blocks, varying in size depending on the requirements of each census operation or survey. (references) | |
| Cluster (Statistics) | Forestry | A sample unit (plot) comprising two or more sample elements (subplots) (Source: The Canadian Forest Inventory Committee, its Subcommittees and delegates.). (references) | |
| Cluster 86 | Computing | Cluster 86 A distributed object-oriented language by L. Shang | |
| Cluster analysis | Fisheries | A method for the visualization of multivariate relationships, typically allele frequency differences or genetic distance measures among populations, individuals, or classes of individuals. Most commonly used are methods that begin by joining the most similar (or least dissimilar) entities and build the tree by adding progressively less similar entities or groups of entities. See UPGMA. (references) | |
| Cluster analysis | Geology | A method grouping those variables within a set of variables that are highly correlated and excluding from clusters those that are negatively correlated or uncorrelated. Used in numerical taxonomy as a procedure for arranging taxonomic units into homogenous clusters based on their mutual similarities. (references) | |
| Cluster Analysis | Health | A set of statistical methods used to group variables or observations into strongly inter-related subgroups. In epidemiology, it may be used to analyze a closely grouped series of events or cases of disease or other health-related phenomenon with well-defined distribution patterns in relation to time or place or both. (references) | |
| Cluster analysis | Statistics | A general approach to multivariate problems in which the aim is to see whether the individuals fall into groups or clusters. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Cluster analysis and regression program | Statistics | A statistical analysis package developed by the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Iowa. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Cluster bomb unit | Military | (DOD, NATO) An aircraft store composed of a dispenser and submunitions. Also called CBU. (references) | |
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