The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bunch \Bunch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bunched; p. pr. & vb. n. Bunching.] To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.
--Woodward.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) An arrangement of items in a bunch. 2 (context uncountable English) The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are actually kidnapped pets or illegally trapped strays. vb. (present participle of bunch English)
Wikipedia
Bunching can refer to:
- Bunching (verb), the practice of boisterous social activity with the Bunch's.
- Bunching (mathematics), also known as Muirhead's inequality.
- Bunching (animals), the practice of stealing pets for laboratories.
- Photon bunching, in physics, the statistical tendency for photons to arrive simultaneously at a detector
Within the Wikipedia community it can also refer to:
- A term for section edit buttons showing up after images or textboxes—see Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links.
Usage examples of "bunching".
The three-year-old stud colt tugged at the bit, its muscles bunching with eagerness for a faster pace, but he maintained the sedate trot Jessy had set around the training pen.
Blood was staining his lips, a steadily growing pool of it spreading across the mud, but still he sought to make his meaning clear, raising himself on one arm and bunching up his fettered legs, as if it an effort to continue on his errand.
He closed his eyes and felt the tremendous power of the muscles bunching and straining beneath him, and a sense of magical wonder washed over him, as though for the first time in his life, he was sharing in the wonder and creation of the Great Earth Mother Herself.
The grub had to spit itself a kind of collar, then allow it to dry a little before bunching itself up within its swaddling, making itself shorter and fatter for a few moments while it wove a lid, closing itself in.
Cramps began to burn in her legs, her shoulders, her sides, bunching muscles that seemed on fire, twisting tighter and tighter and tighter.
When Swallow passed the Quadrivium Cemetery, the middle of the column was bunching together in order to get a long look at the manor, and those at the end were still crossing the river.
She had never achieved this formidable a high, and the great integrating power of her amplified consciousness created clouds of possibilities, the Shastri vector trees, growing and bunching in the created spaces of her mind.
But under the bristle, Kirk and the other crewmen could see that the actual bodies were composed of the same furry ropellke extensions, also bunching up tightly near the base and spreading out into footlike protrusions.
The Iceni warrior pulled his tunic off and stood bare-chested, arms raised and fists clenched, bunching his muscles for the delectation of the crowd.
Then the spiders became agitated, colliding and bunching together, and a couple of micromissiles came soaring toward the raiders, trailing gray smoke.
The vanguard of the herd was already at the dune saddle, bunching up as gawks jostled to get ahead of one another.
Bunching the lapels of her jacket closed at her throat, Maggie shivered as if she were freezing.
She had pinned the abalone pin at the neck of her dress, and it was bunching up the material a little.
There were tiny bunchings of flesh beneath the brows, forcing them out just a bit from the forehead, subtly changing the contours of the face.
I’m trying to keep track of where the catenaries are going to start bunching together.