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CLUSTERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A grouping of a number of similar things
Example:
a cluster of admirers
Synonyms:
bunch; clump; cluster; clustering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("clustering" is a kind of...):
agglomeration (a jumbled collection or mass)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clustering"):
knot (a tight cluster of people or things)
swad (a bunch)
tuft; tussock (a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass)
Instance hyponyms:
Northern Cross (a cluster of 5 bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus)
Omega Centauri (a global cluster in the constellation Centaurus)
Pleiades (a star cluster in the constellation Taurus)
Derivation:
cluster (gather or cause to gather into a cluster)
cluster (come together as in a cluster or flock)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb cluster
Context examples:
During sleep, brain MEG responses demonstrated preserved detection of isolated sounds, but no response reflecting statistical clustering.
(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
They then measured the clustering of the galaxies containing both hidden and exposed black holes — the degree to which the objects clump together across the sky.
(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)
He laughed as he ran his hand through the clustering curls of his hair, and said gaily: Yes, I am on an expedition of duty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Cell migration might result from cooperation between ERK/MAPKs and Rho proteins, FAK activation, beta-integrin clustering and beta-catenin activation.
(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
We were now close in; thirty or forty strokes and we should beach her, for the ebb had already disclosed a narrow belt of sand below the clustering trees.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Our men, clustering amidships, waved their hats and raised a derisive cheer.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Clustering behind him we saw in the yellow field of light a wall of broken basalt which extended to the ceiling.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A method to represent the consensus across multiple runs of a clustering algorithm, to determine the number of clusters in the data, and to assess the stability of the discovered clusters.
(Consensus Clustering, NCI Thesaurus)
Through this wild country it was that Sir Nigel and his Company pushed their way, riding at times through vast defiles where the brown, gnarled cliffs shot up on either side of them, and the sky was but a long winding blue slit between the clustering lines of box which fringed the lips of the precipices; or, again leading their horses along the narrow and rocky paths worn by the muleteers upon the edges of the chasm, where under their very elbows they could see the white streak which marked the gave which foamed a thousand feet below them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This type of clustering cannot be explained by our existing eight-planet solar system architecture and has led to some astronomers hypothesising that the unusual orbits could be influenced by the existence of an as-yet-unknown ninth planet.
(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)
