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clustering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cluster \Clus"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clustered; p. pr. & vb. n. Clustering.] To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
His sunny hair
Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's.
--Tennyson.
The princes of the country clustering together.
--Foxe.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of the verb to cluster. 2 A grouping of a number of similar things. 3 (context demographics English) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion. 4 (context computing English) The undesirable, contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table. 5 (context writing English) A prewriting technique consisting of writing ideas down on a sheet of paper around a central idea within a circle, with the related ideas radially joined to the circle using rays. vb. (present participle of cluster English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Clustering can refer to the following:
In graph theory:
- The formation of clusters of linked nodes in a network, measured by the clustering coefficient
In statistics and data mining:
- An algorithm for cluster analysis (a method for statistical data analysis) or a result thereof
In computing:
- Computer cluster, the technique of linking many computers together to act like a single computer
- Data cluster, an allocation of contiguous storage in databases and file systems
- In hash tables, the mapping of keys to nearby slots
In demographics, clustering is the gathering of various populations based on ethnicity, economics, or religion.
In countries that hold equality important, clustering occurs between groups because of polarizing factors such as religion, wealth or ethnocentrism. Clustering is often considered an enriching part of free cultures in which one can visit a Chinatown or a French quarter for restaurant choices. Other sociologists assert that clustering of like minded individuals leads to political polarity and intolerance of contrary opinions, as the United States has allegedly been trending since the 1950s.
Usage examples of "clustering".
Ronald said, as he looked at the prince as he was pacing up and down the deck with the Duke of Athole, talking rapidly, his face flushed with enthusiasm, his clustering hair blown backward by the wind.
Here and there women in full bariolage emerged from tents and, clustering in groups of three or four, began to move in the same direction.
Even without the fleet at anchor the harbor was already busy with cutters plying to and from the half a hundred merchantmen, others clustering the mail ship, still others heading for her or coming back.
CHAPTER 128 The Pequod Meets The Rachel Next day, a large ship, the Rachel, was descried, bearing directly down upon the Pequod, all her spars thickly clustering with men.
The tiny Haidas were clustering around their medicine man, imploring him to explain the giant figure towering above them, the giant hand reaching down to pluck their boat from the water, the giant voice droning from beyond the stars.
It was full of a noisy crowd of Hoka farmers and tradesmen, some talking in dieir squeaky voices, some playing darts, some clustering around the two humans.
These look so peaceful, with their dormer-windowed cottages clustering about their church-spires, that it seems impossible they could once have been the homes of the savages and the cruel peasants who, with fire-brand and scalping-knife and tomahawk, harassed the borders of New England for a hundred years.
The big white-harled farmhouse sat serenely in the middle of pale green fields of oats and barley, its windows and chimneys edged in gray stone, the walled kailyard and the numerous outbuildings clustering around it like chicks round a big white hen.
Each of the black blocks was five thousand or more men, clustering right now under ground sheets out in the drizzle, perspiring from heat and nerves, not a one of them with the vantage point of Luis, who looked down on the sheer weight of the red blocks across from their force, the Reds packed in, waiting, ready.
Manned by silent paddle strokes, it floated eastward and vanished beyond the clustering moosewood screen.
It drew him to a thicket of aspen trees, beyond that to a tangle of briars, and then to the clustering stands of sweet pepperbushes bordering a small freshet.
Pretty soon there are people clustering outside the factory and following Gabriel Perea home.
The largest pillars, belonging to the wise old souls, tended to attract a flock of immature souls rather like chicks clustering around a mother hen.
On most items, prices tended to be higher in the country than in the cities, where the clustering of chain stores served to intensify competition.
She thought of Glen Keith as she had seen it once, old and storied, and gray and grand, with ivy and roses clustering round its gray walls, and its waving trees casting inviting shadows.