1.
[syn: bunch, clump, cluster, clustering]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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His sunny hair
Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's. --Tennyson.
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The princes of the country clustering together. --Foxe.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
clustering
n 1: a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of
trees"; "a cluster of admirers" [syn: bunch, clump,
cluster, clustering]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
cluster
clustering
1. Multiple servers providing the same
service. The term may imply resilience to failure and/or
some kind of load balancing between the servers. Compare
RAIS.
2. An elementary unit of allocation of a disk
made up of one or more physical blocks.
A file is made up of a whole number of possibly
non-contiguous clusters. The cluster size is a tradeoff
between space efficiency (the bigger is the cluster, the
bigger is on the average the wasted space at the end of each
file) and the length of the FAT.
(1996-11-04)