cluster

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  1. noun A group of the same or similar elements gathered or occurring closely together; a bunch: "She held out her hand, a small tight cluster of fingers” (Anne Tyler).
  2. noun Linguistics Two or more successive consonants in a word, as cl and st in the word cluster.
  3. noun A group of academic courses in a related area.
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  • The silhouette shape of the cluster was a strikingly familiar symbol. —  BEN BOVA
  • Once multiple servers have been turned into a cluster, the individual servers in the cluster are monitored by one another using a "heartbeat." —  TechNet Blogs
  • Hence joining the cluster is as simple as opening a URL and distribution is handled by our battle-tested HTTP protocol. programming —  RubyCorner
  • Dr. Torrens said that using techniques from the field, he could associate samples together, determining whether a cluster was legitimately such, or an abberration in the data -- "whether a cluster is a cluster," in other words. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • Workers in a cluster are also more likely to be well-trained and more skilled, since it's a local industry of a certain geographical area and everyone in that area is likely to know how the industry operates and have a good general knowledge of it.
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

bunch ·  clump ·  row ·  array ·  mass ·  hundred ·  patch ·  shape ·  collection ·  group ·  circle ·  pair

Used in the same contextWord Family

cluster:   clusters ·  clustering ·  clustered
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English clyster.

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  1. from Middle English cluster, clustre, closter, from Anglo-Saxon cluster, usually clyster, = Low German kluster, a cluster; prob. akin to Icelandic klasi = Swedish Danish klase, a cluster. Other connections uncertain.
  2. from Middle English clusteren = Low German klustern; from the noun.
 

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/ˈkləstər/
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