cluster
noun
- ensemble of bound atoms or molecules that is intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid
- collection of atoms or molecules
- group or bunch of something, containing only a few members, which are close to each other
verb
- (cause to) be in a close group
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈklʌstə/ / /ˈklʌstɚ/
noun
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English cluster (“bunch, cluster, spray; compact body or mass, ball”) [and other forms], from Old English cluster, clyster (“cluster, bunch, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *klas-, *klus- (“to clump, lump together”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; to clench; to amass”)) + *-þrą (suffix forming nouns denoting an instrument or tool). The English word is probably a doublet of clot. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Dutch klister (“cluster”) (dialectal) * Icelandic klasi (“cluster; bunch of grapes”) * Low German Kluuster (“cluster”) * Swedish kluster (“cluster”)
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
“a cluster of islands”
“A cluster of flowers grew in the pot.”
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
“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 bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
“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 bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
“A leukemia cluster has developed in the town.”
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
“examples of clusters would include in accordance with, so far, and the results of”
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
“The word scrub begins with a cluster of three consonants.”
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- A number of individuals (animals or people) collected in one place or grouped together; a crowd, a mob, a swarm.
“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.”
- Euphemistic form of clusterfuck (“a chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong”).
verb
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English cluster (“bunch, cluster, spray; compact body or mass, ball”) [and other forms], from Old English cluster, clyster (“cluster, bunch, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *klas-, *klus- (“to clump, lump together”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; to clench; to amass”)) + *-þrą (suffix forming nouns denoting an instrument or tool). The English word is probably a doublet of clot. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Dutch klister (“cluster”) (dialectal) * Icelandic klasi (“cluster; bunch of grapes”) * Low German Kluuster (“cluster”) * Swedish kluster (“cluster”)
- To collect (animals, people, objects, data points, etc) into clusters (noun sense 1).
“The consciousness of such an action will give her features a nobler life on this illustrious day, than all the jewels that can hang in her hair or can be clustered in her bosom.”
“Not less the bee would range her cells, / The furzy prickle fire the dells, / The foxglove cluster dappled bells.”
- To cover (with clusters); to scatter or strew in clusters (within); to distribute (objects) within such that they form clusters.
“The sea is clustered with islands.”
- To form a cluster or group; to assemble, to gather.
“The children clustered around the puppy.”
“[T]he fruite cluſtereth togyther lyke to ſmal grapes, which in the beginning is greene, and afterwarde when it is ripe, al blacke.”