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Webster 1913 Edition

Cluster

Clus′ter

(klŭs′tẽr)
,
Noun.
[AS.
cluster
,
clyster
; cf. LG.
kluster
(also Sw. & Dan.
klase
a cluster of grapes, D.
klissen
to be entangled?.)]
1.
A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.
Her deeds were like great
clusters
of ripe grapes,
Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.
Spenser.
2.
A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group;
as, a
cluster
of islands
.
“Cluster of provinces.”
Motley.
3.
A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
As bees . . .
Pour forth their populous youth about the hive
In
clusters
.
Milton.
We loved him; but, like beasts
And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your
clusters
,
Who did hoot him out o’ the city.
Shakespeare

Clus′ter

,
Verb.
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.

Clus′ter

,
Verb.
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.
Clustered column
(Arch.)
,
a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cluster

CLUSTER

, n.
1.
A bunch; a number of things of the same kind growing or joined together; a knot; as a cluster of raisins.
2.
A number of individuals or things collected or gathered into a close body; as a cluster of bees; a cluster of people.
3.
A number of things situated near each other; as a cluster of governments in Italy.

CLUSTER

, v.i.
1.
To grow in clusters; to gather or unite in a bunch, or bunches; as, clustering grapes.
2.
To form into flakes; as, clustering snow.
3.
To collect into flocks or crowds.

CLUSTER

,
Verb.
T.
To collect into a bunch or close body.

Definition 2024

Cluster

Cluster

See also: cluster and clúster

German

Cluster

Noun

Cluster m ‎(genitive Clusters, plural Cluster or Clusters)

  1. cluster

Declension


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cluster

cluster

See also: Cluster and clúster

English

A cluster of mushrooms.
A star cluster

Noun

cluster ‎(plural clusters)

  1. A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
    a cluster of islands
    • Spenser
      Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, / Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.
    • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict:
      Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs […] ,
    • 2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record:
      Charlie Mulgrew’s delicious deadball delivery was attacked by a cluster of green and white shirts at McGregor’s back post but Ledley got up higher and with more purpose than anyone else to thump a header home from five yards.
    • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 206-7:
      Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
    A cluster of flowers grew in the pot.‎
  2. A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
    • Milton
      As bees […] / Pour forth their populous youth about the hive / In clusters.
    • Shakespeare
      We loved him; but, like beasts / And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, / Who did hoot him out o' the city.
  3. (astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
    The Pleiades cluster contains seven bright stars.‎
  4. (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
  5. (phonetics) A group of consonants.
    The word "scrub" begins with a cluster of three consonants.‎
  6. (computing) A group of computers that work together.
  7. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
  8. (statistics) A significant subset within a population.
  9. (military) Set of bombs or mines.
  10. (army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
  11. (chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cluster ‎(third-person singular simple present clusters, present participle clustering, simple past and past participle clustered)

  1. (intransitive) To form a cluster or group.
    The children clustered around the puppy.
    • Tennyson
      His sunny hair / Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's.
    • Foxe
      the princes of the country clustering together
    • 1997, Lynn Keller, Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226429709, chapter 6, 281:
      On the page, “Me” is irregular but—except for a prominent drawing of a two-toned hieroglyphic eye—not radically unusual: the lines are consistently left-justified; their length varies from one to a dozen syllables; they cluster in stanzalike units anywhere from one to six lines long that are separated by consistent spaces.

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Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: clus‧ter

Etymology

Borrowing from English cluster.

Noun

cluster f, m, m ‎(plural clusters, diminutive clustertje n)

  1. cluster

French

Noun

cluster m ‎(plural clusters)

  1. cluster

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English cluster.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈklɐs.teʁ/

Noun

cluster m (plural clusters)

  1. (music) cluster (chord of three or more notes)
  2. (computing) cluster (group of computers working concurrently)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklastɐ/

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