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cluster

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cluster was a German experimental musical group consisting of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius . They have recorded albums in a wide variety of styles ranging from experimental music to progressive rock and have influenced the development of contemporary ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cluster \Clus"ter\, v. t. To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body. Not less the bee would range her cells, . . . The foxglove cluster dappled bells. --Tennyson. Or from the forest falls the clustered snow. --Thomson. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers" [syn: bunch , clump , clustering ] v. come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" [syn: constellate , flock , clump ] ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English clyster "cluster," probably from the same root as clot (n.). Of stars, from 1727. Cluster-bomb attested from 1967.

Usage examples of cluster.

Scarlet clusters of acne stood out on his cheeks, and his glasses, retro Buddy Holly, were smudged at the corners where he was fiddling with them.

They had seemingly endless space on the acreage, and Scott thought it would be fun, and profitable, to build a treehouse in a cluster of evergreens.

Quenya adjective, or consonant clusters that Quenya does not allow would sometimes result.

The afterbirth dangled from her rump like a cluster of grape Popsicles.

Griffeides, Orpheus with his lute of eight blue stars, Miraldra the Enchantress with blazing Fenim for her diadem, and low in the southeast the star-veils of Alastor Cluster.

Gaean Reach and Alastor Cluster, especially those with rural populations, a new profession has come into existence: the man skilled in star-naming and star-lore.

Coming on deck just after dawn, Alec saw towering grey cliffs off the port bow and a cluster of islands lying close to shore ahead of them.

We covered the six kilometers in ten minutes and turned off the saltway onto a paved ramp that led through a cluster of homes -- white stone this time, not adobe -- and then Alem and the other man furled the sail and pedaled the windcycle slowly along the cobblestone street that ran between the homes and the canal-river.

They looked like clusters of pyramidical Amalgam Creatures stuck together into various shapes.

Young Conservative and Young Socialist and Libertarian literature, a group of Anachronists clustered on a lawn around two masked and gauntleted men with their wooden battle-swords, striking at one another while their referee or marshall or whatever they called him circled slowly around the fighters.

Now his gaze focused on the cluster of shipping anchored out in Table Bay.

In fact, of the twenty rose-trees which formed the parterre, not one bore the mark of the slug, nor were there evidences anywhere of the clustering aphis which is so destructive to plants growing in a damp soil.

Saul walked out from the top of a dune on to the surface of an aqueduct that rose twenty-five feet above the sand and stretched for miles towards the cluster of ruins and new buildings near the sea.

Chapter Eight The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting wings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron, syringas, and guelder roses bulged out their irregular clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path.

But usually those of us who die die in the ashram, with all of the cluster around them, and it is a time for great loving and celebration.